Nicopolis

From Latin Nīcopolis, from Ancient Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis), from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”) in honor of the Battle of Actium.

Nicopolis

1. (historical) Former name of Preveza: a city in northwestern Greece; the former capital of Epirus Vetus, in the Roman Empire.
2. (historical) Former name of Emmaus: a former city in the West Bank, Palestine.

Nicopolis f

1. Nicopolis (ancient capital of the province of Epirus Vetus of the Roman Empire, in modern Greece)

From Ancient Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis, “city of victory”).

Nīcopolis f sg (genitive Nīcopolis or Nīcopolios); third declension

1. Nicopolis (various cities in the Roman Empire), including:
   1. the capital of Epirus Vetus in the Roman Empire, now Preveza (a city in Greece)
   2. (historical) Emmaus (a former city in the West Bank, Palestine)

Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• → English: Nicopolis

• “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.