μητρόπολις
Third declension Noun; Feminine
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μητρόπολις
μητροπόλεως
Structure:
μητροπολι
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- mother-state (in relation to her colonies)
- one's mother-city, mother country, home
- capital city, (in Egypt) chief town of a nomos (nomos)
Declension
Third declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- τὸ δὲ ἄρχειν ἐκ παντὸσ τῶν ἀποικιῶν τὰσ μητροπόλεισ ὡσ ἀναγκαῖόν τι φύσεωσ νόμιμον οὔτε ἀληθὲσ οὔτε δίκαιον ἠξιοῦτο ὑφ’ ὑμῶν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 11 1:4)
- πολλά γέ τοι φῦλά ἐστιν ἀνθρώπων, παρ’ οἷσ αἱ μητροπόλεισ οὐκ ἄρχουσιν ἀλλ’ ὑποτάττονται ταῖσ ἀποικίαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 11 2:1)
- παραστῇ δὲ μηδενὶ ὑμῶν δέοσ ἂν ταῦτα ἐθέλῃ πράττειν μὴ συνθήκασ τε λύσῃ καὶ ὁρ́κουσ τοὺσ ἐπ’ αὐταῖσ γενομένουσ παραβῇ, ἀλλ’ ἐννοείσθω διότι τὰσ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων λελυμένασ εἰσ τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἀποκαταστήσει καὶ οὐ τάσ γε ἐλαχίστου ἀξίασ, ἀλλ’ ἃσ ἥ τε φύσισ ἡ ἀνθρωπεία κατεστήσατο καὶ ὁ πάντων κοινὸσ Ἑλλήνων τε καὶ βαρβάρων βεβαιοῖ νόμοσ, ἄρχειν καὶ τὰ δίκαια τάττειν τοὺσ πατέρασ τοῖσ ἐκγόνοισ καὶ τὰσ μητροπόλεισ ταῖσ ἀποικίαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 23 28:2)
Synonyms
-
mother-state
-
one's mother-city
- πόλις (one's city or country)
