Nicopolis

See also: Nicópolis

English

Etymology

From Latin Nīcopolis, from Ancient Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis), from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”) in honor of the Battle of Actium.

Proper noun

Nicopolis

1. (historical) Former name of Preveza, a city in northwestern Greece that served as the provincial capital of Epirus Vetus in the Roman Empire.
2. (historical) Former name of Emmaus, a former city in the West Bank, Palestine.

Translations

ancient Preveza

• Bulgarian: Никопол (Nikopol)
• French: Nicopolis (fr)
• Greek: Νικόπολη f (Nikópoli)

  Ancient: Νικόπολις f (Nikópolis)

• Italian: Nicopoli f
• Latin: Nīcopolis f
• Marathi: निकोपोलिस (nikopolis)
• Ottoman Turkish: نیگبولی (Niğbolu), نیقوپولس (Nikopolis)
• Spanish: Nicópolis f
• Turkish: Nikopolis, Niğbolu

French

Proper noun

Nicopolis f

1. Nicopolis (ancient capital of the province of Epirus Vetus of the Roman Empire, in modern Greece)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis, “city of victory”).

Proper noun

Nīcopolis f sg (genitive Nīcopolis or Nīcopolios); third declension

1. Nicopolis (various cities in the Roman Empire), including:
   1. The capital of Epirus Vetus, in the Roman Empire, now Preveza (a city in Greece)
   2. (historical) Emmaus (a former city in the West Bank, Palestine)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Nīcopolis
genitive	Nīcopolis Nīcopolios
dative	Nīcopolī
accusative	Nīcopolim Nīcopolin
ablative	Nīcopolī
vocative	Nīcopolis Nīcopolī
locative	Nīcopolī

Descendants

• → English: Nicopolis

References

• “Nicopolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nicopolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.