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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄκρος (ákros) + πόλις (pólis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kró.po.lis/ → /aˈkro.po.lis/ → /aˈkro.po.lis/
Noun
ᾰ̓κρόπολῐς • (akrópolis) f (genitive ᾰ̓κροπόλεως); third declension
- acropolis, high part of a city
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀκρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀκρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀκρόπολις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἀκρόπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἀκρόπολις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀκρόπολις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἀκρόπολις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.