Καλλίπολις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) +‎ πόλις (pólis, “city”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kal.lí.po.lis/ → /kalˈli.po.lis/ → /kaˈli.po.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kal.lí.po.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.po.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.po.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.po.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈli.po.lis/

Proper noun

Καλλίπολῐς • (Kallípolis) f (genitive Καλλῐπόλεως); third declension

1. Callipolis (an ancient town in Aetolia, Greece)
2. Callipolis (an ancient town in Caria, Turkey)
3. Callipolis (an ancient town in Mysia, Turkey)
4. Callipolis (a peninsula in Thrace, Turkey)
5. Callipolis (a port town in Apulia, Italy)
6. Callipolis (a port town on the Hellespont, modern Gelibolu Turkey)
7. (philosophy) Kallipolis (utopian city-state ruled by philosopher-kings as theorised by Plato in the Republic)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ Κᾰλλῐ́πολῐς; τῆς Κᾰλλῐπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Κᾰλλῐ́πολῐς hē Kallípolis
Genitive	τῆς Κᾰλλῐπόλεως tês Kallipóleōs
Dative	τῇ Κᾰλλῐπόλει têi Kallipólei
Accusative	τὴν Κᾰλλῐ́πολῐν tḕn Kallípolin
Vocative	Κᾰλλῐ́πολῐ Kallípoli
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: Kallipolis
• → Latin: Callipolis
  • Italian: Gallipoli
    • → English: Gallipoli
    • → Portuguese: Galípoli
• → Ottoman Turkish: گلیبولی (Gelibolu)
  • Turkish: Gelibolu
    • → English: Gelibolu
  • → Armenian: Կէլիպօլու (Kēlipōlu)

Further reading

• καλλίπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “Καλλίπολις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “Καλλίπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press