German

Proper noun

Tripolis n ‎(genitive Tripolis')

1. Tripoli (capital of Libya)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Τρίπολις ‎(Trípolis).

Proper noun

Tripolis f ‎(genitive Tripolis or Tripoleos); third declension

1. Tripoli (city in modern Libya)
2. Tripoli (city in modern Lebanon)
3. Tripoli (city in Thessaly, modern Greece)
4. The name of several settlements in the Hellenistic world.

Declension

Third declension, with locative.

Note: Tripoleos is only attested postclassically.

References

• Tripolis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Tripolis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

English

Noun

tripolis

1. plural of tripoli