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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἁδριανούπολις (Hadrianoúpolis, “city of Hadrian”), equivalent to Hadriānus (“Hadrian”) + -polis.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hadriānopolis f sg (genitive Hadriānopolis); third declension
- Edirne or (historical) Adrianople, a town of central Thrace at the confluence of the Tonsus and Hebrus rivers.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only.
Descendants
References
- Hadrianopolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Hadrianopolis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly