Nicopolis

See also: Nicópolis

English

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Nicopolis

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin Nīcopolis, from Ancient Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis), from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”) in honor of the Battle of Actium.

Proper noun

Nicopolis

1. (historical) Former name of Preveza: a city in northwestern Greece; the former capital of Epirus Vetus, in the Roman Empire.
2. (historical) Former name of Emmaus: a former city in the West Bank, Palestine.

Derived terms

• Nicopolitan

Translations

ancient Preveza

Bulgarian: Никопол (Nikopol) French: Nicopolis (fr) Greek: Νικόπολη f (Nikópoli) Ancient: Νικόπολις f (Nikópolis) Italian: Nicopoli f Latin: Nīcopolis f Marathi: निकोपोलिस (nikopolis) Ottoman Turkish: نیگبولی (Niğbolu), نیقوپولس (Nikopolis) Polish: Nikopolis f Spanish: Nicópolis f Turkish: Nikopolis, Niğbolu

French

Proper noun

Nicopolis f

1. Nicopolis (ancient capital of the province of Epirus Vetus of the Roman Empire, in modern Greece)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis, “city of victory”).

Proper noun

Nīcopolis f sg (genitive Nīcopolis or Nīcopolios); third declension

1. Nicopolis (various cities in the Roman Empire), including:
   1. the capital of Epirus Vetus in the Roman Empire, now Preveza (a city in Greece)
   2. (historical) Emmaus (a former city in the West Bank, Palestine)

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Nīcopolis
genitive	Nīcopolis Nīcopolios
dative	Nīcopolī
accusative	Nīcopolim Nīcopolin
ablative	Nīcopolī
vocative	Nīcopolis Nīcopolī
locative	Nīcopolī

Descendants

• → English: Nicopolis

References

• “Nicopolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Nicopolis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.