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.
- καὶ τῷ Χάλεβ υἱῷ Ἰεφονὴ ἔδωκε μερίδα ἐν μέσῳ υἱῶν Ἰούδα διὰ προστάγματοσ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ Ἰησοῦσ τὴν πόλιν Ἀρβὸκ μητρόπολιν Ἐνὰκ . (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 15:13)
- καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖσ τὴν Καριαθαρβὸκ μητρόπολιν τῶν Ἐνὰκ ἐν τῷ ὄρει Ἰούδα. τὰ δὲ περισπόρια κύκλῳ αὐτῆς (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 21:11)
- ἐγώ εἰμι εἰρηνικὰ τῶν στηριγμάτων Ἰσραήλ, σὺ δὲ ζητεῖσ θανατῶσαι πόλιν καὶ μητρόπολιν ἐν Ἰσραήλ. ἱνατί καταποντίζεισ κληρονομίαν Κυρίου̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 20:19)
- ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἀνδραποδίσασθαι Θήβασ καὶ Μεσσήνην ἐξοικίσασθαι βουλόμενοσ, ἣν μὲν ὁμόκληρον τῆσ πατρίδοσ, ἣν δὲ μητρόπολιν τοῦ γένουσ, παρ’ οὐδὲν ἦλθε τὴν Σπάρτην ἀποβαλεῖν, ἀπέβαλε δὲ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ὁ δὲ καὶ τῶν πειρατῶν τοῖσ μεταβαλομένοισ πόλεισ ἔδωκε, καὶ Τιγράνην τὸν Ἀρμενίων βασιλέα γενόμενον ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ θριαμβεῦσαι σύμμαχον ἐποιήσατο, φήσασ ἡμέρασ μιᾶσ αἰῶνα προτιμᾶν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Agesilaus and Pompey, chapter 3 2:2)
- "Διονύσιοσ δ’ ὁ Διονυσίου ἁπάσησ γενόμενοσ Σικελίασ ἀλάστωρ εἰσ τὴν Λοκρῶν πόλιν παρελθὼν οὖσαν αὐτῷ μητρόπολιν Δωρὶσ γὰρ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ τὸ γένοσ ἦν Λοκρίσ στρώσασ οἶκον τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει τὸν μέγιστον ἑρπύλλοισ καὶ ῥόδοισ μετεπέμπετο μὲν ἐν μέρει τὰσ Λοκρῶν παρθένουσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 58 2:5)
Synonyms
-
mother-state
-
one's mother-city
- πόλις (one's city or country)
