νεκρόπολις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + πόλῐς (pólis, “city state, city”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ne.kró.po.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /neˈkro.po.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /neˈkro.po.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /neˈkro.po.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /neˈkro.po.lis/
Noun
νεκρόπολῐς • (nekrópolis) f (genitive νεκροπόλεως); third declension
- city of the dead (suburb of the ancient city of Alexandria)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ νεκρόπολῐς; τῆς νεκροπόλεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ νεκρόπολῐς hē nekrópolis | τὼ νεκροπόλει tṑ nekropólei | αἱ νεκροπόλεις hai nekropóleis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς νεκροπόλεως tês nekropóleōs | τοῖν νεκροπολέοιν toîn nekropoléoin | τῶν νεκροπόλεων tôn nekropóleōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ νεκροπόλει têi nekropólei | τοῖν νεκροπολέοιν toîn nekropoléoin | ταῖς νεκροπόλεσῐ / νεκροπόλεσῐν taîs nekropólesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν νεκρόπολῐν tḕn nekrópolin | τὼ νεκροπόλει tṑ nekropólei | τᾱ̀ς νεκροπόλεις tā̀s nekropóleis | ||||||||||
Vocative | νεκρόπολῐ nekrópoli | νεκροπόλει nekropólei | νεκροπόλεις nekropóleis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Armenian: մեռելաքաղաք (meṙelakʿałakʿ) (calque)
- → English: necropolis
- → French: nécropole
- Greek: νεκρόπολη (nekrópoli)
References
- “νεκρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νεκρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νεκρόπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette