tripoli

noun

a port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea

the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya

a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone

Roots

treistri- · Greek · three polispoli- · Greek · city

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The word tripoli breaks down into 2 roots of Greek origin: tri-, from Greek treis (“three”); and poli, from Greek polis (“city”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.