μητρόπολις

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛː.tró.po.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me̝ˈtro.po.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈtro.po.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈtro.po.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈtro.po.lis/

Noun

μητρόπολῐς • (mētrópolis) f (genitive μητροπόλεως); third declension

1. mother-state (in relation to her colonies)
2. one's mother-city, mother country, home
3. capital city
   1. (in Egypt) chief town of a district or νομός (nomós)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ μητρόπολῐς; τῆς μητροπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μητρόπολῐς hē mētrópolis	τὼ μητροπόλει tṑ mētropólei	αἱ μητροπόλεις hai mētropóleis
Genitive	τῆς μητροπόλεως tês mētropóleōs	τοῖν μητροπολέοιν toîn mētropoléoin	τῶν μητροπόλεων tôn mētropóleōn
Dative	τῇ μητροπόλει têi mētropólei	τοῖν μητροπολέοιν toîn mētropoléoin	ταῖς μητροπόλεσῐ / μητροπόλεσῐν taîs mētropólesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μητρόπολῐν tḕn mētrópolin	τὼ μητροπόλει tṑ mētropólei	τᾱ̀ς μητροπόλεις tā̀s mētropóleis
Vocative	μητρόπολῐ mētrópoli	μητροπόλει mētropólei	μητροπόλεις mētropóleis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: μητρόπολη (mitrópoli)
• → Latin: metropolis
• → English: metropolis
• → French: métropole
• → Italian: metropoli
• → Spanish: metrópoli
• → Portuguese: metrópole
• → German: Metropole
• → Dutch: metropool
• → Norwegian: metropol

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • capital idem, page 111.
  • metropolis idem, page 527.
  • mother idem, page 542.