Callipolis

From Latin Callipolis, from Ancient Greek Καλλίπολις (Kallípolis, “City of Beauty”). Doublet of Kallipolis, Gallipoli, and Gelibolu.

Callipolis

1. Synonym of Kallipolis in its various senses.

From Ancient Greek Καλλίπολις (Kallípolis).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kalˈlɪ.pɔ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kalˈliː.po.lis]

Callipolis f sg (genitive Callipolis); third declension

1. a maritime city in Calabria, situated on the gulf of Tarentum, now Gallipoli
2. a city on the east coast of Sicily, situated near Naxos
3. a town in Thrace, opposite to Lampsacus
4. (philosophy) Kallipolis (utopian city state ruled by philosopher kings as theorised by Plato in the Republic)

Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• Italian: Gallipoli
  • → English: Gallipoli
  • → Portuguese: Galípoli
• → English: Callipolis

• “Callipolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Callipolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Callipolis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly