νεκρόπολις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) +‎ πόλῐς (pólis, “city state, city”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.kró.po.lis/ → /neˈkro.po.lis/ → /neˈkro.po.lis/

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

Noun

νεκρόπολῐς • (nekrópolis) f (genitive νεκροπόλεως); third declension

1. city of the dead (suburb of the ancient city of Alexandria)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ νεκρόπολῐς; τῆς νεκροπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νεκρόπολῐς hē nekrópolis	τὼ νεκροπόλει tṑ nekropólei	αἱ νεκροπόλεις hai nekropóleis
Genitive	τῆς νεκροπόλεως tês nekropóleōs	τοῖν νεκροπολέοιν toîn nekropoléoin	τῶν νεκροπόλεων tôn nekropóleōn
Dative	τῇ νεκροπόλει têi nekropólei	τοῖν νεκροπολέοιν toîn nekropoléoin	ταῖς νεκροπόλεσῐ / νεκροπόλεσῐν taîs nekropólesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν νεκρόπολῐν tḕn nekrópolin	τὼ νεκροπόλει tṑ nekropólei	τᾱ̀ς νεκροπόλεις tā̀s nekropóleis
Vocative	νεκρόπολῐ nekrópoli	νεκροπόλει nekropólei	νεκροπόλεις nekropóleis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Armenian: մեռելաքաղաք (meṙelakʿaġakʿ) (calque)
• → English: necropolis
• → French: nécropole
• Greek: νεκρόπολη (nekrópoli)

References

• “νεκρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νεκρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νεκρόπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette