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Constantinopolis
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English
Constantinople
İstanbul
Etymology
From en enm Constantinopolis, from en la Cōnstantīnopolis, from en grc Κωνστᾰντῑνούπολῐς.
Pronunciation
en /ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnɒ.pə.lɪs/ RP
en /ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnɑ.pə.lɪs/ GA
en /ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnɑ.pə.ləs/ weak vowel
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Constantinopolis.wav Southern England
en ɒpəlɪs 6
en Con stan ti no po lis
Proper noun
en Constantinople: en Constantinople Q16869
en 1938 w:H. P. Lovecraft The O-Wash-Ta-Nong: An Amateur Journal Ibid (short story) Ibid 3 1 11 About 541 he removed to Constantinopolis, where he received every mark of imperial favour both from Justinianus and Justinus the Second.
en 1999 Suraiya Faroqhi Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources 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.
en 2014 Sarah Bassett Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World Collecting and the Creation of History 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.
en 2015 Lucy Grig Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity Competing Capitals 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.
Latin
la:
Alternative forms
la CON
Etymology
la :bor grc-koi:Κωνστᾰντῑνούπολῐς +
From la grc-koi Κωνστᾰντῑνούπολῐς city of Constantine the Great Constantine, from la grc πόλῐς city + grc Κωνστᾰντῖνος Κωνστᾰντῑ́νου of Constantine, a name borrowed from la Cōnstantīnus, from la cōnstāns constant, steadfast.
Pronunciation
Cōnstantīnopolis 1
Proper noun
Cōnstantīnopolis<3> Cōnstantīnopolis/Cōnstantīnopoleos/Cōnstantīnopolios
la Late Latin la Constantinople Q16869 1
Declension
Cōnstantīnopolis<3> Cōnstantīnopolis/Cōnstantīnopoleos/Cōnstantīnopolios
Synonyms
la Bȳzantium
la Nova Rōma
Descendants
enm Constantinople 1
fr Constantinople 1
ja コンスタンティノポリス Konsutantinoporisu 1
ko 콘스탄티노폴리스 1
References
la terms suffixed with -polis
Middle English
Proper noun
enm proper noun 1
enm Constantinople: enm Constantinople Q16869 1
enm Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1) 1.179 (a. 1387) Constantinopolis..was somtyme þe cheef citee of þe Est, riʒt as Rome was of þe West.
Old English
Etymology
From ang la Cōnstantīnopolis
Proper noun
m
Constantinople/Istanbul
ang Places in Turkey