πτολίεθρον

• πολῐ́εθρον (polĭ́ethron) — Attic
• ὀλιγόκερως (oligókerōs)

From πτόλῐς (ptólĭs), variant of πόλῐς (pólĭs, “city”) +‎ -θρον (-thron). Olsen calls the phonetic details "quite obscure."^[1]

πτολῐ́εθρον • (ptolĭ́ethron) n (genitive πτολῐέθρου); second declension

1. (Epic) city

   Synonyms: πτόλῐς (ptólĭs), πόλῐς (pólĭs), ἄστῠ (ástŭ)

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.1–2:

     Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
     πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσε·

     Ándra moi énnepe, Moûsa, polútropon, hòs mála pollà
     plánkhthē, epeì Troíēs hieròn ptolíethron éperse;

     Muse, sing for me of the man of many ways, who wandered very far, after he sacked the holy city of Troy:

• “πτολίεθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πτολίεθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πτολίεθρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πτολίεθρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πτολίεθρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter