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μητρόπολις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μητρόπολις μητροπόλεως

Structure: μητροπολι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. mother-state (in relation to her colonies)
  2. one's mother-city, mother country, home
  3. 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.

Examples

  • καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν σφόδρα. ἤδει γὰρ ὅτι πόλισ μεγάλη Γαβαών, ὡσεὶ μία τῶν μητροπόλεων, καὶ πάντεσ οἱ ἄνδρεσ αὐτῆσ ἰσχυροί. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. mother-state

  2. one's mother-city

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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