ἀκρόπολις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄκρος (ákros) + πόλις (pólis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.kró.po.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈkro.po.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈkro.po.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈkro.po.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈkro.po.lis/
Noun
ᾰ̓κρόπολῐς • (akrópolis) f (genitive ᾰ̓κροπόλεως); third declension
- acropolis, high part of a city
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἀκρόπολῐς; τῆς ἀκροπόλεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀκρόπολῐς hē akrópolis | τὼ ἀκροπόλει tṑ akropólei | αἱ ἀκροπόλεις hai akropóleis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀκροπόλεως tês akropóleōs | τοῖν ἀκροπολέοιν toîn akropoléoin | τῶν ἀκροπόλεων tôn akropóleōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀκροπόλει têi akropólei | τοῖν ἀκροπολέοιν toîn akropoléoin | ταῖς ἀκροπόλεσῐ / ἀκροπόλεσῐν taîs akropólesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀκρόπολῐν tḕn akrópolin | τὼ ἀκροπόλει tṑ akropólei | τᾱ̀ς ἀκροπόλεις tā̀s akropóleis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀκρόπολῐ akrópoli | ἀκροπόλει akropólei | ἀκροπόλεις akropóleis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ακρόπολη (akrópoli)
- → French: acropole
Further reading
- ἀκρόπολις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀκρόπολις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀκρόπολις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- ἀκρόπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀκρόπολις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀκρόπολις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀκρόπολις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Capitol idem, page 1005.
- acropolis idem, page 9.
- capitol idem, page 112.
- castle idem, page 117.
- citadel idem, page 133.