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 ὄνομα τῆσ Χεβρὼν ἦν τὸ πρότερον πόλισ Ἀρβόκ. μητρόπολισ τῶν Ἐνακὶμ αὕτη. καὶ ἡ γῆ ἐκόπασε τοῦ πολέμου. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 14:15)
- καὶ ἐπιστήσω τοὺσ κριτάσ σου ὡσ τὸ πρότερον καὶ τοὺσ συμβούλουσ σου ὡσ τὸ ἀπ̓ ἀρχῆσ. καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα κληθήσῃ πόλισ δικαιοσύνησ, μητρόπολισ πιστὴ Σιών. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 1:26)
- πάλιν δεηθεὶσ χρημάτων ἐξεκκλησιάσασ τοῖσ Μυλασσεῦσιν ἔλεγεν ὅτι μητρόπολισ οὖσα ἡ πόλισ αὐτοῦ αὕτη ἀτείχιστόσ ἐστιν, ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν στρατεύει. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 48:1)
- Ἀρχέστρατοσ δ’ ὁ κίμβιξ φησί καὶ θύννησ οὐραῖον ἔχειν ‐ τὴν θυννίδα φωνῶ τὴν μεγάλην, ἧσ μητρόπολισ Βυζάντιόν ἐστιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 67 2:1)
- ἐπεὶ δὲ Λυδοὶ μὲν ἦσαν οἱ Τυρρηνοὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ, Λυδῶν δὲ μητρόπολισ αἱ Σάρδεισ, οὕτω τοὺσ Οὐηίουσ ἀπεκήρυττον· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 53 1:1)
- μήτρα ἑξῆσ ἐπεισηνέχθη, μητρόπολίσ τισ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ οὖσα καὶ μήτηρ τῶν Ἱπποκράτουσ υἱῶν, οὓσ εἰσ ὑωδίαν κωμῳδουμένουσ οἶδα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 50 1:1)
- μητρόπολίσ ἐστιν, οὐχὶ πατρόπολισ πόλισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 57 2:1)
Synonyms
-
mother-state
-
one's mother-city
- πόλις (one's city or country)
