Memphis

From Latin Memphis, from Ancient Greek Μέμφις (Mémphis), from Egyptian mn-nfr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛmfɪs/

Memphis

1. A city of ancient Egypt.
2. The largest city in Tennessee, United States, and the county seat of Shelby County.
3. The name of several towns or cities in the US.
   1. A town in Pickens County, Alabama.
   2. A census-designated place in Manatee County, Florida.
   3. A census-designated place in Clark County, Indiana.
   4. A small city in Macomb County and St. Clair County, Michigan.
   5. A former village in DeSoto County, Mississippi.
   6. A small city, the county seat of Scotland County, Missouri.
   7. A village in Saunders County, Nebraska.
   8. A hamlet in the town of Van Buren, Onondaga County, New York.
   9. An unincorporated community in Clinton County, Ohio.
   10. A city, the county seat of Hall County, Texas.

• Memphian
• Memphibian
• Memphis rap
• Memphrica (offensive)

• Memphitic, Memphitical

From Ancient Greek Μέμφις (Mémphis), from Egyptian mn-nfr.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmem.pʰis/, [ˈmɛmpʰɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmem.fis/, [ˈmɛmfis]

Memphis f sg (genitive Memphidos or Memphis); third declension

1. Memphis (an ancient city in Egypt)

• Two declensional patterns are attested, but the Greek pattern was used almost exclusively postclassically.

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant, imparisyllabic non-i-stem or non-Greek-type, i-stem, accusative singular in -im or -in; two different stems), with locative, singular only.

¹In poetry.

• “Memphis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Memphis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.