Δεκάπολις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δέκᾰ (déka, “ten”) +‎ πόλις (pólis, “city”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /de.ká.po.lis/ → /ðeˈka.po.lis/ → /ðeˈka.po.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /de.ká.po.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /deˈka.po.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðeˈka.po.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðeˈka.po.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðeˈka.po.lis/

Proper noun

Δεκᾰ́πολῐς • (Dekápolis) f (genitive Δεκᾰπόλεως); third declension

1. Decapolis, the ten city region in Syria and Judea.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Δεκᾰ́πολῐς; τῆς Δεκᾰπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Δεκᾰ́πολῐς hē Dekápolis
Genitive	τῆς Δεκᾰπόλεως tês Dekapóleōs
Dative	τῇ Δεκᾰπόλει têi Dekapólei
Accusative	τὴν Δεκᾰ́πολῐν tḕn Dekápolin
Vocative	Δεκᾰ́πολῐ Dekápoli
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Δεκαπολίτης (Dekapolítēs)

Descendants

• Greek: Δεκάπολις (Dekápolis); Δεκάπολη (Dekápoli)
• Latin: Decapolis

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Δεκάπολις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1179 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[1], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN