Νεάπολις
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Νέᾱ πόλῐς (Néā pólĭs)
Etymology
From νέᾱ (néā, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólĭs, “city”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ne.ǎː.po.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /neˈa.po.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /neˈa.po.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /neˈa.po.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /neˈa.po.lis/
Proper noun
Νεᾱ́πολῐς • (Neā́polĭs) f (genitive Νεᾱπόλεως); third declension
- Any one of various Greek and Hellenistic cities named Neapolis
- Naples, Italy
- Nablus, Palestine
- Nabeul, Tunisia
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Νεᾱ́πολῐς hē Neā́polĭs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Νεᾱπόλεως tês Neāpóleōs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Νεᾱπόλει têi Neāpólei | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Νεᾱ́πολῐν tḕn Neā́polĭn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Νεᾱ́πολῐ Neā́polĭ | ||||||||||||
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Coordinate terms
- Παλαιόπολις (Palaiópolis)
Derived terms
- Νεᾱπολῑ́της (Neāpolī́tēs)
Descendants
- → Arabic: نَابُلُس (Nābulus)
- → Arabic: نابل (Nābil)
- Greek: Νεάπολη (Neápoli)
- → Latin: Neāpolis
- → Latin: neapolitanus
- Catalan: napolità
- English: Neapolitan
- French: napolitain, Napolitain
- Friulian: napoletan
- Galician: napolitano
- Italian: napoletano
- Lombard: napoletan
- Neapolitan: napulitano
- Portuguese: napolitano
- Romanian: napolitan
- Spanish: napolitano
References
- “Νεάπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G3496 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
- John Doukas, editor (1070±11), “νεάπολισ”, in Codex Parisinus gr. 2009 (in Byzantine Greek), page 60, line 7