Calpe

From Latin.

Calpe f

1. (obsolete) Original genus name of Calyptra.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κάλπη (Kálpē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.peː/, [ˈkäɫ̪peː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.pe/, [ˈkälpe]

Calpē f sg (genitive Calpēs); first declension

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

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