Ἀμφίπολις
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾰ̓μφῐ́ (amphí, “around”) + πόλῐς (pólis, “city”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /am.pʰí.po.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /amˈpʰi.po.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /amˈɸi.po.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /amˈfi.po.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /amˈfi.po.lis/
Proper noun
Ᾰ̓μφῐ́πολῐς • (Amphípolis) f (genitive Ᾰ̓μφῐπόλεως); third declension
- Amphipolis (a city in Macedonia, Greece, situated on the left bank of the river Strymon)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Ᾰ̓μφῐ́πολῐς hē Amphípolis | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ᾰ̓μφῐπόλεως tês Amphipóleōs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ᾰ̓μφῐπόλει têi Amphipólei | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ᾰ̓μφῐ́πολῐν tḕn Amphípolin | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ᾰ̓μφῐ́πολῐ Amphípoli | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀμφῐπολῑ́της (Amphipolī́tēs)
Descendants
- Greek: Αμφίπολη (Amfípoli)
- Latin: Amphipolis
References
- Ἀμφίπολις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G295 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,001