Polis

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is it from polis?”)

Proper noun[edit]

Polis

  1. A surname.
    • 1973 January 31, Ken Fathers, “Schmautz Gets Winner, Polis The Car”, in The Windsor Star, page 33:
      Don't even think about the odds that Bobby Schmautz of Vancouver Canucks would score the winning goal or that Greg Polis of Pittsburgh Penguins would win the car.
    • 1973 May 2, Associated Press, “Carol Polis loves judging those bouts”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, page 3C:
      Carol Polis, who figures she's the world's only lady boxing judge, is having the time of her life— but two things bother her a bit.
    • 2009 August 10, Associated Press, “Colo. delegation votes party lines on hate crime”, in KXRM[1], www.coloradoconnection.com:
      Jared Polis of Boulder is the first openly gay man elected to Congress as a non-incumbent.

Anagrams[edit]

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis).

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

Polis f (genitive Polis, plural Poleis)

  1. (historical) polis (Greek city-state)

Declension[edit]

Latvian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

polis

Proper noun[edit]

Polis m

  1. a surname originating as a patronymic