Καλλίμαχος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

From κᾰλλῐ́μᾰχος (kallímakhos, fighting nobly), from κάλλος (kállos, beauty, nobility) +‎ μᾰ́χη (mákhē, fight) +‎ -ος (-os, masculine nominal ending).

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Proper noun

Κᾰλλῐ́μᾰχος (Kallímakhosm (genitive Κᾰλλῐμᾰ́χου); second declension

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Callimachus
  2. in particular, the Hellenistic scholar and poet Callimachus

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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 Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011