Νικόπολις
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /niː.kó.po.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /niˈko.po.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /niˈko.po.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /niˈko.po.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /niˈko.po.lis/
Proper noun
[edit]Νῑκόπολῐς • (Nīkópolis) f (genitive Νῑκοπόλεως); third declension
- (historical) Nicopolis (a city in the Roman Empire), the modern Preveza.
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Νῑκόπολῐς hē Nīkópolis | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Νῑκοπόλεως tês Nīkopóleōs | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Νῑκοπόλει têi Nīkopólei | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Νῑκόπολῐν tḕn Nīkópolin | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Νῑκόπολῐ Nīkópoli | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- Νικοπολίτης (Nikopolítēs)
Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: Никопол (Nikopol)
- → Greek: Νικόπολη (Nikópoli)
- → Latin: Nicopolis
- → English: Nicopolis
- → Ottoman Turkish: نیگبولی (Niğbolu)
- Turkish: Niğbolu
- → Turkish: Nikopolis
Further reading
[edit]- 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
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