Nicopolis

== English == === 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 (historical) Former name of Preveza: a city in northwestern Greece; the former capital of Epirus Vetus, in the Roman Empire. (historical) Former name of Emmaus: a former city in the West Bank, Palestine. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == French == === Proper noun === Nicopolis f Nicopolis (ancient capital of the province of Epirus Vetus of the Roman Empire, in modern Greece) == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis, “city of victory”). === Proper noun === Nīcopolis f sg (genitive Nīcopolis or Nīcopolios); third declension Nicopolis (various cities in the Roman Empire), including: the capital of Epirus Vetus in the Roman Empire, now Preveza (a city in Greece) (historical) Emmaus (a former city in the West Bank, Palestine) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only. ==== 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.