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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Φιλιππόπολις (Philippópolis).
Proper noun
Philippopolis f sg (genitive Philippopolis); third declension
- A city of Thrace, now Plovdiv; historical capital of the Roman province of Thracia
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only.
References
- “Philippopolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Philippopolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Philippopolis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly