Δεκάπολις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δέκᾰ (déka, “ten”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /de.ká.po.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /deˈka.po.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðeˈka.po.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðeˈka.po.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðeˈka.po.lis/
Proper noun
Δεκᾰ́πολῐς • (Dekápolis) f (genitive Δεκᾰπόλεως); third declension
- Decapolis, the ten city region in Syria and Judea.
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Δεκᾰ́πολῐς; τῆς Δεκᾰπόλεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Δεκᾰ́πολῐς hē Dekápolis | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Δεκᾰπόλεως tês Dekapóleōs | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Δεκᾰπόλει têi Dekapólei | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Δεκᾰ́πολῐν tḕn Dekápolin | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Δεκᾰ́πολῐ Dekápoli | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Δεκαπολίτης (Dekapolítēs)
Descendants
- Greek: Δεκάπολις (Dekápolis); Δεκάπολη (Dekápoli)
- Latin: Decapolis
References
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Δεκάπολις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1179 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN