Τρίπολις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τρι- (tri-, “three”) +‎ πόλις (pólis, “city”); however, for Tripolis in Phoenicia, the name was possibly formed by folk etymology from an earlier, phonetically similar, Semitic name.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trí.po.lis/ → /ˈtri.po.lis/ → /ˈtri.po.lis/

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

Proper noun

Τρίπολις • (Trípolis) f (genitive Τριπόλεως); third declension

1. A city in Phoenicia (now Tripoli, Lebanon), founded and administered by a consortium of the cities Tyrus, Sidon and Aradus.
2. A region in ancient Libya, known as Regio Tripolitana in Latin, formed by the cities Oea (now Tripoli, the capital of Libya), Sabratha and Leptis Magna.
3. A district in ancient Arcadia, Greece, consisting of the cities Calliae, Dipoena and Nonacris; the relation with the capital Tripoli of modern Arcadia is not clear.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Τρίπολῐς; τῆς Τριπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Τρίπολῐς hē Trípolis
Genitive	τῆς Τριπόλεως tês Tripóleōs
Dative	τῇ Τριπόλει têi Tripólei
Accusative	τὴν Τρίπολῐν tḕn Trípolin
Vocative	Τρίπολῐ Trípoli
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Arabic: طَرَابُلُس (ṭarābulus)
  • → Azerbaijani: Tərabülüs
  • → Hausa: Tarabulus
  • → Ottoman Turkish: طرابلس (tarabülüs)
  • → Persian: طرابلس (tarâbolos)
  • → Urdu: طرابلس (tarābulus)
  • → Uyghur: تەرابۇلۇس (terabulus)
  • → Uzbek: Tarobulus
• Czech: Tripolis
• → Greek: Τρίπολη (Trípoli) (learned)
  • English: Tripoli
• Japanese: トリポリ (Toripori)
• Korean: 트리폴리 (teuripolli)
• Latin: Tripolis
  • German: Tripolis
  • English: Tripolis
  • Italian: Tripoli
    • English: Tripoli
    • Irish: Tripilí
  • Portuguese: Trípoli
  • Spanish: Trípoli
• Ottoman Turkish: تیره‌بولی (Tirebolu)
  • Turkish: Tirebolu
    • English: Tirebolu
  • → Armenian: Թիրէպօլու (Tʻirēpōlu)
• Russian: Три́поли (Trípoli)

References

• Τρίπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pausanias, Description of Greece, “Arcadia”