ἀκρόπολις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾰ̓́κρος (ắkros) + πόλῐς (pólĭs).
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 • (ăkrópolĭs) f (genitive ᾰ̓κροπόλεως); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓κρόπολῐς hē ăkrópolĭs |
τὼ ᾰ̓κροπόλει tṑ ăkropólei |
αἱ ᾰ̓κροπόλεις hai ăkropóleis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓κροπόλεως tês ăkropóleōs |
τοῖν ᾰ̓κροπολέοιν toîn ăkropoléoin |
τῶν ᾰ̓κροπόλεων tôn ăkropóleōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓κροπόλει tēî ăkropólei |
τοῖν ᾰ̓κροπολέοιν toîn ăkropoléoin |
ταῖς ᾰ̓κροπόλεσῐ / ᾰ̓κροπόλεσῐν taîs ăkropólesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓κρόπολῐν tḕn ăkrópolĭn |
τὼ ᾰ̓κροπόλει tṑ ăkropólei |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓κροπόλεις tā̀s ăkropóleis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓κρόπολῐ ăkrópolĭ |
ᾰ̓κροπόλει ăkropólei |
ᾰ̓κροπόλεις ăkropóleis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
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 (2006–2026)
- 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.