Tripolis

From Latin Tripolis, from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis), from τρι- (tri-, “tri-: three”) + πολις (polis, “city, city-state”). Doublet of Tripoli and Tirebolu.

Tripolis

1. (historical) A former district of Arcadia, Greece, around the three cities of Calliae, Dipoena, and Nonacris.
2. (historical) Former name of Tripoli, various places.
3. (historical) Former name of Tirebolu: a town in Turkey.

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Tripolis

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Derived from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis).

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Tripolis m inan (relational adjective tripoliský or tripolský)

1. Tripoli (the capital of Libya)

   Tripolis je nevěsta Středomoří. ― Tripoli is the bride of the Mediterranean.

• “Tripolis”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Tripolis”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Tripolis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʁiːpolɪs/

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Tripolis n (proper noun, genitive Tripolis' or (with an article) Tripolis)

1. Tripoli (the capital of Libya)

From Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis).

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Tripolis f sg (genitive Tripolis or Tripoleos); third declension

1. Tripoli (a city in modern Libya)
2. Tripoli (a city in modern Lebanon)
3. Tripoli (city in Thessaly, modern Greece)
4. The name of several settlements in the Hellenistic world.

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

Note: Tripoleos is only attested postclassically.

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

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Tripolis

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From Latin Tripolis, ultimately from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis).

Tripolis m

1. Tripoli (the capital of Libya)

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

Tripolis

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Tripolis m inan (genitive singular Tripolisu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Tripoli (the capital of Libya)

• “Tripolis”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025