Νικόπολις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) +‎ πόλις (pólis, “city”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /niː.kó.po.lis/ → /niˈko.po.lis/ → /niˈko.po.lis/

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

Proper noun

Νῑκόπολῐς • (Nīkópolis) f (genitive Νῑκοπόλεως); third declension

1. (historical) Nicopolis (a city in the Roman Empire), the modern Preveza.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Νῑκόπολῐς; τῆς Νῑκοπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Νῑκόπολῐς hē Nīkópolis
Genitive	τῆς Νῑκοπόλεως tês Nīkopóleōs
Dative	τῇ Νῑκοπόλει têi Nīkopólei
Accusative	τὴν Νῑκόπολῐν tḕn Nīkópolin
Vocative	Νῑκόπολῐ Nīkópoli
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Νικοπολίτης (Nikopolítēs)

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: Никопол (Nikopol)
• → Greek: Νικόπολη (Nikópoli)
• → Latin: Nicopolis
  • → English: Nicopolis
• → Ottoman Turkish: نیگبولی (Niğbolu)
  • Turkish: Niğbolu
• → Turkish: Nikopolis

Further reading

• 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
• G3533 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible