Calpe

From Latin.

Calpe f

1. (obsolete) Original genus name of Calyptra.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κάλπη (Kálpē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaɫ.peː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkal.pe]

Calpē f sg (genitive Calpēs); first declension

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
2. Gibraltar, Strait of Gibraltar (a strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco; in full, Strait of Gibraltar)

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

• “Calpe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Calpe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Calpe”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Calpe”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly