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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κᾰλλῐ́μᾰχος (kallímakhos, “fighting nobly”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty, nobility”) + μᾰ́χη (mákhē, “fight”) + -ος (-os, masculine nominal ending).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kal.lí.ma.kʰos/ → /kalˈli.ma.xos/ → /kaˈli.ma.xos/
Proper noun
Κᾰλλῐ́μᾰχος • (Kallímakhos) m (genitive Κᾰλλῐμᾰ́χου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Callimachus
- in particular, the Hellenistic scholar and poet Callimachus
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Καλλίμαχος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
- “Καλλίμαχος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011