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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πτόλις (ptólis, “city”) + πέρθω (pérthō, “to sack”) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pto.lí.por.tʰos/ → /ptoˈli.por.θos/ → /ptoˈli.por.θos/
Noun
πτολίπορθος • (ptolíporthos) m (genitive πτολῐπόρθου); second declension
- (chiefly Epic) sacker of cities (epithet chiefly of Odysseus, sometimes of other heroes or of Ares)
Declension
Further reading
- “πτολίπορθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πτολίπορθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πτολίπορθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πτολίπορθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πτολίπορθος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter