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English
Etymology
From the Standard English police, compare Scots polis.
Noun
pollis (countable and uncountable, plural pollises)
- (uncountable, Geordie) The police.
- (countable, Geordie) A policeman or policewoman.
References
Latin
Etymology
See pollen (“fine flour”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pollis m or f (genitive pollinis); third declension
- Alternative form of pollen
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “pollis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pollis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,195/3.
- “pollis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “pollis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray