Nicopolis

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See also: Nicópolis

English

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Etymology

From Latin Nīcopolis, from Ancient Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis), from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”) in honor of the Battle of Actium.

Proper noun

Nicopolis

  1. (historical) Former name of Preveza, a city in northwestern Greece that served as the provincial capital of Epirus Vetus in the Roman Empire.
  2. (historical) Former name of Emmaus, a former city in the West Bank, Palestine.

Translations

French

Proper noun

Nicopolis f

  1. Nicopolis (ancient capital of the province of Epirus Vetus of the Roman Empire, in modern Greece)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis, “city of victory”).

Proper noun

Nīcopolis f sg (genitive Nīcopolis or Nīcopolios); third declension

  1. Nicopolis (various cities in the Roman Empire), including:
    1. the capital of Epirus Vetus, in the Roman Empire, now Preveza (a city in Greece)
    2. (historical) Emmaus (a former city in the West Bank, Palestine)

Declension

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

singular
nominative Nīcopolis
genitive Nīcopolis
Nīcopolios
dative Nīcopolī
accusative Nīcopolim
Nīcopolin
ablative Nīcopolī
vocative Nīcopolis
Nīcopolī
locative Nīcopolī

Descendants

  • → English: Nicopolis

References

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