The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἩλίου πόλις“Sun City”
- Latin · borrowed fromHēliopolis
- English todayHeliopolis
Borrowed from Latin Hēliopolis, from Ancient Greek Ἡλίου πόλις (Hēlíou pólis, “Sun City”), from the important solar cults of Ra and Baal. Doublet of Surajpur.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.