ἀκρόπολις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ᾰ̓́κρος (ắkros) +‎ πόλῐς (pólĭs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.kró.po.lis/ → /aˈkro.po.lis/ → /aˈkro.po.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.kró.po.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈkro.po.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈkro.po.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈkro.po.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈkro.po.lis/

Noun

ᾰ̓κρόπολῐς • (ăkrópolĭs) f (genitive ᾰ̓κροπόλεως); third declension

1. acropolis; high part of a city

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓κρόπολῐς; τῆς ᾰ̓κροπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓κρόπολῐς hē ăkrópolĭs	τὼ ᾰ̓κροπόλει tṑ ăkropólei	αἱ ᾰ̓κροπόλεις hai ăkropóleis
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓κροπόλεως tês ăkropóleōs	τοῖν ᾰ̓κροπολέοιν toîn ăkropoléoin	τῶν ᾰ̓κροπόλεων tôn ăkropóleōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓κροπόλει tēî ăkropólei	τοῖν ᾰ̓κροπολέοιν toîn ăkropoléoin	ταῖς ᾰ̓κροπόλεσῐ / ᾰ̓κροπόλεσῐν taîs ăkropólesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓κρόπολῐν tḕn ăkrópolĭn	τὼ ᾰ̓κροπόλει tṑ ăkropólei	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓κροπόλεις tā̀s ăkropóleis
Vocative	ᾰ̓κρόπολῐ ăkrópolĭ	ᾰ̓κροπόλει ăkropólei	ᾰ̓κροπόλεις ăkropóleis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ακρόπολη (akrópoli)
• → French: acropole

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 (2006–2026)
• 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • acropolis idem, page 9.
  • capitol idem, page 112.
  • castle idem, page 117.
  • citadel idem, page 133.