Νεάπολις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Νέᾱ πόλῐς (Néā pólĭs)

Etymology

From νέᾱ (néā, “new”) +‎ πόλῐς (pólĭs, “city”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.ǎː.po.lis/ → /neˈa.po.lis/ → /neˈa.po.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.ǎː.po.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /neˈa.po.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /neˈa.po.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /neˈa.po.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /neˈa.po.lis/

Proper noun

Νεᾱ́πολῐς • (Neā́polĭs) f (genitive Νεᾱπόλεως); third declension

1. Any one of various Greek and Hellenistic cities named Neapolis
2. Naples, Italy
3. Nablus, Palestine
4. Nabeul, Tunisia

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Νεᾱ́πολῐς; τῆς Νεᾱπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Νεᾱ́πολῐς hē Neā́polĭs
Genitive	τῆς Νεᾱπόλεως tês Neāpóleōs
Dative	τῇ Νεᾱπόλει têi Neāpólei
Accusative	τὴν Νεᾱ́πολῐν tḕn Neā́polĭn
Vocative	Νεᾱ́πολῐ Neā́polĭ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Coordinate terms

• Παλαιόπολις (Palaiópolis)

Derived terms

• Νεᾱπολῑ́της (Neāpolī́tēs)

Descendants

• → Arabic: نَابُلُس (Nābulus)
  • → English: Nablus
  • → French: Naplouse
  • → Ottoman Turkish: نابلس (Nablus)
• → Arabic: نابل (Nābil)
  • → French: Nabeul
    • → English: Nabeul
• Greek: Νεάπολη (Neápoli)
• → Latin: Neāpolis
  • French: Naples
    • → English: Naples
      • → Chinese: 那不勒斯 (Nàbùlèsī)
      • → Japanese: ネイプルズ
  • Italian: Napoli
    • → Chinese: 拿坡里 (Nápōlǐ)
    • → English: Napoli
    • → Estonian: Napoli
    • → Finnish: Napoli
    • → Greek: Νάπολη (Nápoli)
    • → Japanese: ナポリ
    • → Ottoman Turkish: ناپولی (Napoli)
      • Turkish: Napoli
    • → Vietnamese: Napoli
  • Neapolitan: Napule
  • Portuguese: Nápoles
  • Romanian: Napoli
  • → Russian: Неаполь (Neapolʹ)
  • Sicilian: Nàpuli
  • Spanish: Nápoles
• → Latin: neapolitanus
  • Catalan: napolità
  • English: Neapolitan
  • French: napolitain, Napolitain
    • → Japanese: ナポリタン
      • → English: naporitan
  • Friulian: napoletan
  • Galician: napolitano
  • Italian: napoletano
  • Lombard: napoletan
  • Neapolitan: napulitano
  • Portuguese: napolitano
  • Romanian: napolitan
  • Spanish: napolitano

References

• “Νεάπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G3496 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
• John Doukas, editor (1070±11), “νεάπολισ”, in Codex Parisinus gr. 2009‎^[2] (in Byzantine Greek), page 60, line 7