Callisto

From Ancient Greek Καλλιστώ (Kallistṓ).

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlɪs.toʊ̯/

Callisto

1. (Greek mythology) A nymph of Artemis.
2. (astronomy) A moon of Jupiter.

• Callistoan
• Callistonian

• Castillo, Costilla, localist

From Ancient Greek Καλλιστώ (Kallistṓ).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kalˈlis.toː/, [kälˈlʲɪs̠t̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kalˈlis.to/, [kälˈlist̪o]

Callistō f sg (genitive Callistūs); fourth declension

1. (Greek mythology) Callisto
   • (Can we date this quote?), Hyginus, fabulae, Iovis filii; in: Hygini fabulae, edidit Mauricius Schmidt, Jena, 1872, page 121:

     Arcas ex Callisto, Lycaonis filia

   • (Can we date this quote?), Hyginus, astronomica; in: Hygini astronomica ex codicibus a se primum collatis recensuit Bernhardus Bunte. Accedunt prolegomena, commentarius, excerpta ex codicibus, index, epimetron, Lipsia, 1875, page 34:

     IV ARCTOPHYLAX. De hoc fertur ut sit Arcas nomine, Callistus et Iouis filius, quem dicitur Lycaon, cum Iuppiter ad eum in hospitium uenisset, cum alia carne concisum pro epulis apposuisse . [...]

   • (Can we date this quote?), Catullus, poem 66; in: Catullus[,] Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris, 1921, page 132f. with English translation by F. W. Cornish:

     Virginis et saevi contingens namque Leonis | lumina, Callisto iuncta Lycaoniae, | vertor in occasum, tardum dux ante Booten, | qui vix sero alto mergitur Oceano.

     for I, touching the fires of the Virgin and the raging Lion, and close by Callisto daughter of Lycaon, move to my setting, while I point the way before slow Bootes, who scarce late at night dips in deep ocean.

2. (New Latin) Callisto (moon)

Fourth-declension noun (all cases except the genitive singular in -ō), singular only.

• Callistō sīdus

• “Callisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Callisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1568