Heliopolis

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See also: Heliópolis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Hēliopolis, from Ancient Greek Ἡλίου πόλις (Hēlíou pólis, “Sun City”), from the important solar cults of Ra and Baal. Doublet of Surajpur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌhiːliˈɒpəlɪs/

Proper noun

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Heliopolis

  1. (historical) The ancient capital of the 13th nome of Lower Egypt, located in the northern suburbs of modern Cairo, Egypt; known in Ancient Egyptian as Iunu and in later Coptic as On.
  2. (historical) An ancient city in modern Lebanon; modern Baalbek.
  3. A suburb of Cairo, Egypt.
  4. A suburb of Athens, Greece.

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References

  1. ^ "Heliopolis" in Oxford Dictionaries.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἡλιούπολις (Hēlioúpolis, “city of the sun”).

Proper noun

Hēliopolis f sg (genitive Hēliopolis or Hēliopoleos or Hēliopolios); third declension

  1. Heliopolis (an ancient city in Lower Egypt, near modern Cairo, Egypt)

Declension

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

Case Singular
Nominative Hēliopolis
Genitive Hēliopolis
Hēliopoleos
Hēliopolios
Dative Hēliopolī
Accusative Hēliopolim
Hēliopolin
Ablative Hēliopolī
Vocative Hēliopolis
Hēliopolī
Locative Hēliopolī

The inflected forms Hēliopoleos, Hēliopolios, and Hēliopolin are only attested postclassically.

References

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