Canopus

English

Etymology

From Latin Canōpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈnoʊpəs/

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.

Derived terms

• canopic jar

Translations

star

• Arabic: سُهَيْل (suhayl)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 老人星 (lou⁵ jan⁴ sing¹)

  Mandarin: 老人星 (zh) (Lǎorénxīng)

• Greek: Κάνωπος (el) m (Kánopos)
• Hawaiian: Kealiʻiokonaikalewa (Ke-aliʻi-o-Kona-i-ka-lewa), Aliʻiokonaikalewa (Aliʻi-o-Kona-i-ka-lewa) (uncommon)
• Latin: Canōpus m
• Maori: Autahi, Atutahi, Makahea
• Persian: سهیل (fa) (soheyl), اگست (agast), پرک (fa) (parak)
• Spanish: Canopo

Menelaus' pilot

• Greek: Κάνωπος (el) m (Kánopos)

Noun

Canopus (plural Canopuses)

1. A canopic jar.

Anagrams

• Panucos

Latin

Alternative forms

• Canōbus

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈnoː.pus/, [käˈnoːpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.pus/, [käˈnɔːpus]

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

• “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.