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Neapolis
Neapolis
See also: Néapolis
Latin
Proper noun
Neāpolis f (genitive Neāpolis or Neāpolios or Neāpoleos); third declension
- Naples, Italy
- Various other cities in the Hellenistic world, including modern Nabeul, Tunisia, and Nablus, Lebanon.
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Neapolis.
Declension
Third declension, with locative.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Neāpolis |
| genitive | Neāpolis Neāpolios Neāpoleos |
| dative | Neāpolī |
| accusative | Neāpolim Neāpolin |
| ablative | Neāpolī |
| vocative | Neāpolis Neāpolī |
| locative | Neāpolī |
The genitive forms beside Neāpolis are influenced by the Greek and only used postclassically.
Descendants
- English: Naples
- French: Naples
- Italian: Napoli
- Neapolitan: Napule
- Portuguese: Nápoles
- Spanish: Nápoles
References
- Neapolis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Neapolis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.