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Latin
Etymology
From Grātiānus (“Gratian”) + -polis. Gratian's name is from gratia (“favor, esteem”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Grātiānopolis f sg (genitive Grātiānopolis or Grātiānopoleos); third declension
- (Late Latin) Grenoble (a city in modern France)
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only.
Descendants
References
- “Gratianopolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Gratianopolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Long, Harry Alfred (1833): Personal and Family Names: A Popular Monograph on the Origin and History of the Nomenclature of the Present and Former Times, p. 41