Canopus Definition & Meaning

Origin of Canopus

Latin Canōpus from Greek kanōpos perhaps of Egyptian origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin Canōpus, from Ancient Greek Κάνωπος (Kanōpos, “Kanopos”)

From Wiktionary

When the German squadron was sighted it would have been possible to fall back on the " Canopus," but this would have entailed the destruction of the " Otranto," which would have been overtaken by the enemy in two or three hours.
By the decree of Canopus, Ptolemy III.Euergetes introduced through the assembly of priests an extra day every fourth year, but this reform had no acceptation until it was reimposed by Augustus with the Julian calendar.
In 1866 Lepsius again went to Egypt, and discovered the famous Decree of Tanis or Table of Canopus, an inscription of the same character as the Rosetta Stone, in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek.
Brightness is particularly deceptive; thus Canopus, the second brightest star in the heavens, has probably a parallax of less than 0.01 ", and so also has Rigel.
The remainder of his life he spent at Canopus, and Tro y near Memphis, where he died at the age of ninety-five.

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