Tripolis

See also: tripolis

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

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

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrɪpolɪs]

Proper noun

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.

Declension

Declension of Tripolis (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Tripolis
genitive	Tripolisu
dative	Tripolisu
accusative	Tripolis
vocative	Tripolise
locative	Tripolisu
instrumental	Tripolisem

Related terms

• Libye
• Libyjec
• libyjský

Further reading

• “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), 2008–2026

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʁiːpolɪs/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

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

1. Tripoli (the capital of Libya)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɪ.pɔ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.po.lis]

Proper noun

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.

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Tripolis
genitive	Tripolis Tripoleos
dative	Tripolī
accusative	Tripolim Tripolin
ablative	Tripolī
vocative	Tripolis Tripolī
locative	Tripolī

Note: Tripoleos is only attested postclassically.

Descendants

• Czech: Tripolis
• German: Tripolis
• English: Tripolis
• Italian: Tripoli
  • English: Tripoli
  • Irish: Tripilí
• Middle French: Triple
• Portuguese: Trípoli
• Spanish: Trípoli

References

• “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.

Lithuanian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Tripolis m

1. Tripoli (the capital of Libya)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tripɔʎis/, (high register) [ˈtripɔʎis], (common) [ˈtripɔlis]
• Rhymes: -ɔʎis
• Hyphenation: Tri‧po‧lis

Proper noun

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

1. Tripoli (the capital of Libya)

References

• “Tripolis”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026