Τρίπολις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τρι- (tri-, “three”) +‎ πόλις (pólis, “city”); however, for Tripolis in Phoenicia, the name was possibly formed by folk etymology from an earlier, phonetically similar, Semitic name.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Τρίπολις • (Trípolis) f (genitive Τριπόλεως); third declension

A city in Phoenicia (now Tripoli, Lebanon), founded and administered by a consortium of the cities Tyrus, Sidon and Aradus.
A region in ancient Libya, known as Regio Tripolitana in Latin, formed by the cities Oea (now Tripoli, the capital of Libya), Sabratha and Leptis Magna.
A district in ancient Arcadia, Greece, consisting of the cities Calliae, Dipoena and Nonacris; the relation with the capital Tripoli of modern Arcadia is not clear.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Τρίπολῐς; τῆς Τριπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Τρίπολῐς hē Trípolis
Genitive	τῆς Τριπόλεως tês Tripóleōs
Dative	τῇ Τριπόλει têi Tripólei
Accusative	τὴν Τρίπολῐν tḕn Trípolin
Vocative	Τρίπολῐ Trípoli
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Arabic: طَرَابُلُس (ṭarābulus)
- → Azerbaijani: Tərabülüs
- → Hausa: Tarabulus
- → Ottoman Turkish: طرابلس (tarabülüs)
- → Persian: طرابلس (tarâbolos)
- → Urdu: طرابلس (tarābulus)
- → Uyghur: تەرابۇلۇس (terabulus)
- → Uzbek: Tarobulus
Czech: Tripolis
→ Greek: Τρίπολη (Trípoli) (learned)
- English: Tripoli
Japanese: トリポリ (Toripori)
Korean: 트리폴리 (teuripolli)
Latin: Tripolis
- German: Tripolis
- English: Tripolis
- Italian: Tripoli
  - English: Tripoli
  - Irish: Tripilí
- Portuguese: Trípoli
- Spanish: Trípoli
Ottoman Turkish: تیره‌بولی (Tirebolu)
- Turkish: Tirebolu
  - English: Tirebolu
- → Armenian: Թիրէպօլու (Tʻirēpōlu)
Russian: Три́поли (Trípoli)

References

Τρίπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Pausanias, Description of Greece, “Arcadia”