Ἀμφιπολίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ἀμφῐ́πολῐς (Amphípolis, “Amphipolis”) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, masculine demonymic suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /am.pʰi.po.lǐː.tɛːs/ → /am.ɸi.poˈli.tis/ → /am.fi.poˈli.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /am.pʰi.po.lǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /am.pʰi.poˈli.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /am.ɸi.poˈli.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /am.fi.poˈli.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /am.fi.poˈli.tis/

Noun

Ἀμφῐπολῑ́της • (Amphipolī́tēs) m (genitive Ἀμφῐπολῑ́του); first declension

1. an inhabitant of Amphipolis; an Amphipolitan

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ἀμφῐπολῑ́της; τοῦ Ἀμφῐπολῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Ἀμφῐπολῑ́της ho Amphipolī́tēs	τὼ Ἀμφῐπολῑ́τᾱ tṑ Amphipolī́tā	οἱ Ἀμφῐπολῖται hoi Amphipolîtai
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀμφῐπολῑ́του toû Amphipolī́tou	τοῖν Ἀμφῐπολῑ́ταιν toîn Amphipolī́tain	τῶν Ἀμφῐπολῑτῶν tôn Amphipolītôn
Dative	τῷ Ἀμφῐπολῑ́τῃ tôi Amphipolī́tēi	τοῖν Ἀμφῐπολῑ́ταιν toîn Amphipolī́tain	τοῖς Ἀμφῐπολῑ́ταις toîs Amphipolī́tais
Accusative	τὸν Ἀμφῐπολῑ́την tòn Amphipolī́tēn	τὼ Ἀμφῐπολῑ́τᾱ tṑ Amphipolī́tā	τοὺς Ἀμφῐπολῑ́τᾱς toùs Amphipolī́tās
Vocative	Ἀμφῐπολῖτᾰ Amphipolîta	Ἀμφῐπολῑ́τᾱ Amphipolī́tā	Ἀμφῐπολῖται Amphipolîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: Amphipolitan
• Greek: Αμφιπολίτης (Amfipolítis)

Further reading

• Ἀμφιπολίτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,001