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See also: Megalopoli
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]megalopoli
- plural of megalopolis
- 1967, William Rudolph Ewald, Environment for Man: The Next Fifty Years, Indiana, page 140:
- All the megalopoli of the future—in this country and elsewhere—will transcend national boundaries in many ways.
- 1972, David Harvey, Society, the City, and the Space-economy of Urbanism (Association of American Geographers 1972, p. 14)
- This problem has been made more serious in the contemporary city by the emergence of a new form of spatial ordering in the form of sprawling megalopoli.
- 1976, Robert Theobald, Beyond Despair (Michigan 1976, p. 153)
- With these developments came urbanization and centralization, which trends have culminated in the mega-farms and megalopoli of the present.
- 1997, Stephen Metz, Strategic Horizons, Diane Publishing, page 9:
- The population of megalopoli like Mexico City and Sao Paulo will be well over 20 million by the end of the 20th century.
- 1998, John M. Collins, Military Geography, Diane Publishing, page 199:
- Table 20. Present and Projected Megalopoli (more than 10 million inhabitants […]
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from English megalopolis, with -s dropped on analogy with metropoli.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]megalopoli
Declension
[edit]Inflection of megalopoli (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | megalopoli | megalopolit | |
genitive | megalopolin | megalopolien | |
partitive | megalopolia | megalopoleja | |
illative | megalopoliin | megalopoleihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | megalopoli | megalopolit | |
accusative | nom. | megalopoli | megalopolit |
gen. | megalopolin | ||
genitive | megalopolin | megalopolien | |
partitive | megalopolia | megalopoleja | |
inessive | megalopolissa | megalopoleissa | |
elative | megalopolista | megalopoleista | |
illative | megalopoliin | megalopoleihin | |
adessive | megalopolilla | megalopoleilla | |
ablative | megalopolilta | megalopoleilta | |
allative | megalopolille | megalopoleille | |
essive | megalopolina | megalopoleina | |
translative | megalopoliksi | megalopoleiksi | |
abessive | megalopolitta | megalopoleitta | |
instructive | — | megalopolein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “megalopoli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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