Canopus

From Latin Canōpus.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈnoʊpəs/
• enPR: kă-nōʹpŭs

Canopus

1. (astronomy) A white bright giant, visually the second brightest star in the night sky, a part of the southern constellation of Carina.
2. (Greek mythology) The pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad.
3. An ancient coastal city in northern Egypt, known for extravagance.

• (star): Alpha Carinae (Bayer latinized form), α (alpha) Carinae (Bayer designation), α Car (Bayer abbreviated form)

• Carina

• canopic jar

Canopus (plural Canopuses)

1. A canopic jar.

• “Naming Stars”, in International Astronomical Union, 1 June 2018, List of IAU-approved Star Names.

• Panucos

• Canōbus

From Ancient Greek Κάνωπος (Kánōpos, “Canopus”), Κάνωβος (Kánōbos, “Canobus”). Possibly Arabic جَنُوب (janūb, “south”) is cognate; compare the southeastern wall of the Kaaba pointing to the star and bearing the name جَنُوب (janūb).^[1][2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈnoː.pʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈnɔː.pus]

Canōpus m sg (genitive Canōpī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) the pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad
2. Canopus (an ancient coastal city in northern Egypt, known for extravagance)
3. (by extension, poetic) Lower Egypt
4. (astronomy) the star Canopus

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• → English: Canopus (learned)

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