Καλλίμαχος

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kal.lí.ma.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.ma.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.ma.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.ma.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈli.ma.xos/

Proper noun

Κᾰλλῐ́μᾰχος • (Kallímakhos) m (genitive Κᾰλλῐμᾰ́χου); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κᾰλλῐ́μᾰχος; τοῦ Κᾰλλῐμᾰ́χου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Κᾰλλῐ́μᾰχος ho Kallímakhos
Genitive	τοῦ Κᾰλλῐμᾰ́χου toû Kallimákhou
Dative	τῷ Κᾰλλῐμᾰ́χῳ tôi Kallimákhōi
Accusative	τὸν Κᾰλλῐ́μᾰχον tòn Kallímakhon
Vocative	Κᾰλλῐ́μᾰχε Kallímakhe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Καλλίμαχος (Kallímachos)
• Latin: Callimachus
• Armenian: Կալիմաքոս (Kalimakʻos)
• Georgian: კალიმაქე (ḳalimake)
• Russian: Каллима́х (Kallimáx)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
• Καλλίμαχος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.