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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλῐς (pólis, “city state, city”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛː.tró.po.lis/ → /miˈtro.po.lis/ → /miˈtro.po.lis/
Noun
μητρόπολῐς • (mētrópolis) f (genitive μητροπόλεως); third declension
- mother-state (in relation to her colonies)
- one's mother-city, mother country, home
- capital city
- (in Egypt) chief town of a district or νομός (nomós)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “μητρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μητρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μητρόπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3390 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μητρόπολις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.