Constantinopolis

From Latin Cōnstantīnopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis).

Constantinopolis

1. Alternative form of Constantinople
   • 1938, H. P. Lovecraft, “Ibid” in The O-Wash-Ta-Nong: An Amateur Journal, volume 3, number 1, page 11:

     About 541 he removed to Constantinopolis, where he received every mark of imperial favour both from Justinianus and Justinus the Second.

   • 1999, Suraiya Faroqhi, Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources, page 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.

   • 2014, Sarah Bassett, “Collecting and the Creation of History” in Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World, page 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.

   • 2015, Lucy Grig, “Competing Capitals” in Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, page 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.

From Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis).

Cōnstantīnopolis f (genitive Cōnstantīnopolis or Cōnstantīnopoleos or Cōnstantīnopolios); third declension

1. (Late Latin) Constantinople (Constantine's imperial capital, modern Istanbul)

Third declension, with locative.

• Bȳzantium

• Constantinopolis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Constantinopolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette