Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πόλις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόλις πόλεως

Structure: πολι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gen. po/lews dissyll. in attic Poets

Sense

  1. city
  2. the Athenian citadel
  3. one's city or country
  4. (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.

Synonyms

  1. city

  2. the Athenian citadel

  3. one's city or country

Related

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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