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.
- μόνοι δὲ τῷ Ιωἄννῃ παρέμειναν οἱ πολῖται καὶ ξένοι τινὲσ ἐκ τῆσ Τυρίων μητροπόλεωσ ὡσ χίλιοι καὶ πεντακόσιοι. (Flavius Josephus, 438:1)
- Ἴστροσ δ’ ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεὺσ ἐν ὑπομνήμασι προσιστόρηκεν, ὅτι τῷ Λαέρτῃ δοθεῖσα πρὸσ γάμον καὶ ἀναγομένη, περὶ τὸ Ἀλεξανδρεὺσ ἐν τῇ Βοιωτίᾳ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα τέκοι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτ’ ἐκεῖνοσ ὥσπερ μητροπόλεωσ ἀναφέρων τοὔνομα τὴν ἐν Ἰθάκῃ πόλιν οὕτω φησὶ προσαγορεύεσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 43 1:4)
- τέκοι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτ’ ἐκεῖνοσ ὥσπερ μητροπόλεωσ ἀναφέρων τοὔνομα τὴν ἐν Ἰθάκῃ πόλιν οὕτω φησὶ προσαγορεύεσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 43 2:1)
- καὶ πόλεισ αὐτόθι κατεσκεύασαν ἄλλασ τε καὶ Λάρισαν, ἐπὶ τῆσ ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ σφῶν μητροπόλεωσ ὄνομα θέμενοι αὐτῇ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 21 4:2)
- οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐκείνοισ ὁμόγλωσσοί εἰσιν, οὐδ’ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν ὡσ φωνῇ μὲν οὐκέτι χρῶνται παραπλησίᾳ, ἄλλα δέ τινα διασώζουσι τῆσ μητροπόλεωσ μηνύματα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 30 1:3)
Synonyms
-
mother-state
-
one's mother-city
- πόλις (one's city or country)
