Canopus

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Etymology

From Latin Canōpus.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Canopus

  1. (astronomy) A yellowish-white supergiant star in the constellation Carina; Alpha (α) Carinae. It is the second brightest star in the night sky.
  2. (Greek mythology) The pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad.
  3. An ancient coastal city in northern Egypt, known for extravagance.

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Translations

Noun

Canopus (plural Canopuses)

  1. A canopic jar.

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κάνωπος (Kánōpos, “Canopus”), Κάνωβος (Kánōbos, “Canobus”). Possibly Arabic جَنُوب (janūb, “south”) is cognate; compare the southeastern wall of the Kaaba pointing to the star and bearing the name جَنُوب (janūb).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Canōpus m sg (genitive Canōpī); second declension

  1. (Greek mythology) the pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad
  2. Canopus (an ancient coastal city in northern Egypt, known for extravagance)
  3. (by extension, poetic) Lower Egypt
  4. (astronomy) the star Canopus

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Canōpus
Genitive Canōpī
Dative Canōpō
Accusative Canōpum
Ablative Canōpō
Vocative Canōpe
Locative Canōpī

References

  1. ^ “The Qibla Of Early Mosques: Jerusalem Or Makkah?”, on Islamic Awareness, 2 July 2001 – 3 November 2001.
  2. ^ “Canopus” in Constellation-Guide, 2014.
  • “Canopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Canopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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