Constantinopolis
English
Etymology
From Latin Cōnstantīnopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis).
Proper noun
Constantinopolis
- Alternative form of Constantinople
- 1938, H. P. Lovecraft, “Ibid” in The O-Wash-Ta-Nong: An Amateur Journal, volume 3, number 1, page 11:
- About 541 he removed to Constantinopolis, where he received every mark of imperial favour both from Justinianus and Justinus the Second.
- 1999, Suraiya Faroqhi, Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources, page 124:
- Thus the Roman emperor Severus had destroyed the Hellenistic city; as to the emperor Constantine, he tore down pagan monuments to rebuild Byzantium as Constantinopolis, the capital of a Christian empire.
- 2014, Sarah Bassett, “Collecting and the Creation of History” in Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World, page 154:
- Like the monuments culled from the cities and sanctuaries of the Roman world, the relics of Constantinopolis created a history for the city both through individual identity and their status as appropriated objects.
- 2015, Lucy Grig, “Competing Capitals” in Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, page 43:
- Nonetheless, in the fourth century, Roma began to appear in a new guise, in a whole series of official images from coins to consular diptychs, more or less twinned with her upstart “sister”, Constantinopolis.
- 1938, H. P. Lovecraft, “Ibid” in The O-Wash-Ta-Nong: An Amateur Journal, volume 3, number 1, page 11:
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis).
Proper noun
Cōnstantīnopolis f sg (genitive Cōnstantīnopolis or Cōnstantīnopoleos or Cōnstantīnopolios); third declension
- (Late Latin) Constantinople (Constantine's imperial capital, modern Istanbul)
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Cōnstantīnopolis |
| Genitive | Cōnstantīnopolis Cōnstantīnopoleos Cōnstantīnopolios |
| Dative | Cōnstantīnopolī |
| Accusative | Cōnstantīnopolim Cōnstantīnopolin |
| Ablative | Cōnstantīnopolī |
| Vocative | Cōnstantīnopolis Cōnstantīnopolī |
| Locative | Cōnstantīnopolī |
Synonyms
References
- “Constantinopolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Constantinopolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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