ἑλέπολις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἑλέπτολις (heléptolis)
Etymology
From ἑλε- (hele-, “to take, capture”, aorist stem of αἱρέω (hairéō)) + πόλις (pólis, “city”): literally “taking or capturing cities”.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /he.lé.po.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)eˈle.po.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈle.po.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈle.po.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈle.po.lis/
Noun
ἑλέπολῐς • (helépolis) f (genitive ἑλεπόλεως); third declension
- helepolis, an engine for sieges
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ἑλέπολῐς; τῆς ἑλεπόλεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἑλέπολῐς hē helépolis | τὼ ἑλεπόλει tṑ helepólei | αἱ ἑλεπόλεις hai helepóleis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἑλεπόλεως tês helepóleōs | τοῖν ἑλεπολέοιν toîn helepoléoin | τῶν ἑλεπόλεων tôn helepóleōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἑλεπόλει têi helepólei | τοῖν ἑλεπολέοιν toîn helepoléoin | ταῖς ἑλεπόλεσῐ / ἑλεπόλεσῐν taîs helepólesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἑλέπολῐν tḕn helépolin | τὼ ἑλεπόλει tṑ helepólei | τᾱ̀ς ἑλεπόλεις tā̀s helepóleis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἑλέπολῐ helépoli | ἑλεπόλει helepólei | ἑλεπόλεις helepóleis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: helepolis
Further reading
- “ἑλέπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἑλέπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἑλέπολις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)