Acropolis

See also: acropolis, acrópolis, and Acrópolis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀκρόπολις (Akrópolis, “Acropolis”), from ἄκρος (ákros, “highest”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: əkrŏʹpəlĭs, IPA^(key): /əˈkɹɒpəlɪs/,

Proper noun

the Acropolis

1. The Athenian Acropolis. (Compare acropolis.)

Translations

Athenian Acropolis

• Armenian: Ակրոպոլիս (Akropolis)
• Asturian: Acrópolis f
• Bulgarian: Акро́пол (Akrópol)
• Catalan: Acròpolis f
• Czech: Akropolis (cs) f, Akropole (cs) f
• Danish: Akropolis
• Dutch: Akropolis
• Finnish: Akropolis
• Galician: Acrópole f
• German: Akropolis (de) f
• Greek: Ακρόπολη (el) f (Akrópoli)

  Ancient: Ἀκρόπολις (Akrópolis)

• Icelandic: Akrópólishæð f
• Irish: An Acrapoil f, An tAcrapolas m
• Italian: Acropoli
• Japanese: アクロポリス (akuroporisu)
• Korean: 아크로폴리스 (akeuropolliseu)
• Macedonian: А́кропол m (Ákropol)
• Malay: Akropolis
• Polish: Akropol (pl) m
• Portuguese: Acrópole f
• Russian: Акро́поль (ru) m (Akrópolʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Акропољ m

  Roman: Akropolj m

• Spanish: Acrópolis f

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• Alemannic German: ^{(please verify)} Akropolis
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} Akropolis
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} Akropolis
• French: ^{(please verify)} Acropole
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} Acropolis
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} Acropoli
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} Acropolis
• Low German: ^{(please verify)} Akropolis
• Luxembourgish: ^{(please verify)} Akropolis
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} Акропол (Akropol)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} Akropoli
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} Akropolis
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} Akropol
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} Akropol
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} Akropol
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} Akropolis (sv)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} Акро́поль (Akrópolʹ)

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