acropoli

acropoli

1. (nonstandard) plural of acropolis
   • 1927: Serving as places of refuge and market centres, the Gallic towns resembled the acropoli of ancient Greece and the castles and fortified towns of the Middle Ages — Frantz Funck-Brentano, The Earliest Times, tr. Elsie Finnimore Buckley (Heinemann 1927, p. 62)
   • 1955: The ancient town, above which the modern one was built, has left a confusion of remains. It boasted two acropoli — Ogrizek, Greece (McGraw-Hill 1955, p. 207)
   • 1958: Here, some eighteen thousand people then lived, surrounded by cyclopean walls of polygonal masonry which, on the western slopes, connected three towers or acropoli at projected points above ravines. — Orcutt William Frost, Young Hearn (Hokuseido 1958, p. 9)
   • 1996: Then, little by little people built streets and houses that fanned outward in haphazard patterns from the acropoli. — Don Nardo, Life in Ancient Greece (Lucent 1996)
   • 2004: Their political and religious centers included great acropoli of massed palaces, temples, stone tombs, and ballcourts. — Arthur Demarest, Ancient Maya (Cambridge 2004, p. 1)
   • 2005: It can be no coincidence that the toponyms associated with these acropoli are based on the word ha, just as we find at Palenque — Keith M. Prufer, In the Maw of the Earth Monster (UNiversity of Texas 2005, p. 163)

acro- +‎

acropoli f (invariable)

1. acropolis (elevated part of a city in ancient Greece)

• rocca

• capriolo
• copiarlo