Pentapolis

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Πεντάπολις (Pentápolis). === Proper noun === Pentapolis f sg (genitive Pentapolis or Pentapoleos or Pentapolios); third declension The name of several pentapolises (associations of five cities) in the Hellenistic world, especially the one in Cyrenaica. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only. === References === “Pentapolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Pentapolis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.