Callirrhoe

Callirrhoe

1. (astronomy) One of the moons of Jupiter.

• Callirhoē (poetic)

From Ancient Greek Καλλιρρόη (Kallirrhóē), derived from the adjective καλλίρροος (kallírrhoos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kalˈlɪr.rʰo.eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kalˈlir.ro.e]

Callirrhoē f sg (genitive Callirrhoēs); first declension

1. Daughter of Achelous, second wife of Alcmoeon.
2. Wife of Piranthus.
3. A daughter of Oceanus.
4. A fountain at Athens.
5. A warm, medicinal fountain in Palestine.
6. synonym of Edessa (city in present-day Turkey)

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

• “Callirrhoe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Callirrhoe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.