πόλις
Third declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
πόλις
πόλεως
Structure:
πολι
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Etym.: gen. po/lews dissyll. in attic Poets
Sense
- city
- the Athenian citadel
- one's city or country
- (ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως) city governor, praetor urbanus
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.
- εἶδεσ ὦ εἶδεσ ὦ πᾶσα πόλι τὸν φρόνιμον ἄνδρα τὸν ὑπέρσοφον, οἷ’ ἔχει σπεισάμενοσ ἐμπορικὰ χρήματα διεμπολᾶν, ὧν τὰ μὲν ἐν οἰκίᾳ χρήσιμα, τὰ δ’ αὖ πρέπει χλιαρὰ κατεσθίειν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Choral, strophe1)
- σύ τ’ ὦ τάλαινα συγκατασκάπτῃ πόλι, εἰ μὴ λόγοισι τοῖσ ἐμοῖσ τὶσ πείσεται. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:11)
- καὶ τὸ οὖροσ τὸ πρὸσ τῇ πόλι, ὅτου ἐν τῇσιν ὑπωρείῃσιν ᾤκισται ἡ Νῦσα, Μηρὸσ κληίζεται ἐπὶ τῇ συμφορῇ ᾗτινι ἐχρήσατο εὐθὺσ γενόμενοσ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 1 6:1)
- τάφρον δὲ περιβεβλῆσθαι τῇ πόλι τὸ εὖροσ ἑξάπλεθρον, τὸ δὲ βάθοσ τριήκοντα πήχεων· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 10 7:1)
- Κέκροποσ πόλι, καὶ παρὰ Νείλῳ ἔστιν ὅτ’ ἐν Μούσαισ δριμὺ πέφυκε φυτόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 40 2:3)
- οὐκ ἄξιον ἅπαντασ ἐπιθυμεῖν πολίτασ γίγνεσθαι τῆσ τοιαύτησ πόλεωσ μήτε κάματον ὑπολογιζομένουσ τὸν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ μήτε πρὸσ τὸ μῆκοσ τοῦ χρόνου ἀπαγορεύοντασ, εἰ μέλλουσιν ἀφικόμενοι ἐγγραφήσεσθαι καὶ αὐτοὶ καὶ μεθέξειν τῆσ πολι τείασ; (Lucian, 46:2)
Synonyms
-
city
-
the Athenian citadel
-
one's city or country
