ΚΑΛΛΙΠΥΓΩ, καλλιπυγω
KALLIPYGŌ, kallipygō
Sounds Like: kal-lee-PY-goh
Translations: I have beautiful buttocks, I have a beautiful rump
From the root: ΚΑΛΟΣ, ΠΥΓΗ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from 'ΚΑΛΟΣ' (beautiful, good) and 'ΠΥΓΗ' (buttocks, rump). It literally means 'to have beautiful buttocks' or 'to be beautiful-buttocked'. It describes someone, typically a woman, who is considered to have an attractive posterior.
Inflection: First Person Singular, Present Tense, Indicative Mood, Active Voice
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:117
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΛΟΣ, ΠΥΓΗ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΛΛΙΠΥΓΟΣ — having beautiful buttocks, beautiful-buttocked, callipygian
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