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κωμόπολις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωμόπολις κωμόπολεως

Structure: κωμοπολι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kw/mh

Sense

  1. a village-town

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κωμόπολις κωμοπόλει κωμοπόλεις
Genitive κωμοπόλεως κωμοπόλοιν κωμοπόλεων
Dative κωμοπόλει κωμοπόλοιν κωμοπόλεσιν*
Accusative κωμόπολιν κωμοπόλει κωμοπόλεις
Vocative κωμόπολι κωμοπόλει κωμοπόλεις

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖσ Ἄγωμεν ἀλλαχοῦ εἰσ τὰσ ἐχομένασ κωμοπόλεισ, ἵνα καὶ ἐκεῖ κηρύξω, εἰσ τοῦτο γὰρ ἐξῆλθον. (, chapter 1 44:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὁρ́ων τῶν Λυκαονικῶν τὰ Γαρσαύιρα κωμόπολισ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 2 10:8)
  • ἔχει δὲ καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν Μηνὸσ Φαρνάκου καλούμενον, τὴν Ἀμερίαν κωμόπολιν πολλοὺσ ἱεροδούλουσ ἔχουσαν καὶ χώραν ἱεράν, ἣν ὁ ἱερώμενοσ ἀεὶ καρποῦται. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 50:9)
  • ὅπου δὲ καὶ εὑρεῖν δυνατόν, βαθύτατα φρέατα τῶν πάντων, καθάπερ ἐν Σοάτροισ, ὅπου καὶ πιπράσκεται τὸ ὕδωρ ἔστι δὲ κωμόπολισ Γαρσαούρων πλησίον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 6 1:2)
  • καὶ τὸ Ἴλιον δ’ ὃ νῦν ἔστι κωμόπολίσ τισ ἦν, ὅτε πρῶτον Ῥωμαῖοι τῆσ Ἀσίασ ἐπέβησαν καὶ ἐξέβαλον Ἀντίοχον τὸν μέγαν ἐκ τῆσ ἐντὸσ τοῦ Ταύρου. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 46:1)

Synonyms

  1. a village-town

    • κώμη (an unwalled village or country town)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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