Decapolis

Borrowed from Latin Decapolis, from Ancient Greek Δεκάπολις (Dekápolis), from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).

Decapolis

2. A group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and Syria.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δεκάπολις (Dekápolis), from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɛˈka.pɔ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈkaː.po.lis]

Decapolis f sg (genitive Decapolis); third declension

1. Decapolis (a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and Syria)

Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• → English: Decapolis
• French: Décapole
• Italian: Decapoli

• “Decapolis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.