"Traditional name"
The name Hipolito is commonly a male name.
Hipolito is the Spanish form of Hippolytus, from the Greek Hippolytos, a compound of hippos, horse, and lyein, to loose. The element order gives the sense of horses let loose or unharnessed. The name is carried in Greek myth by Hippolytus, son of Theseus, and it reached Spanish and Portuguese through the Latin Hippolytus; the Portuguese form is written Hipolito as well, with the accent on the first i in fully accented spelling.
The pronunciation of Hipolito is hih-poh-LEE-toh.
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