metropolis
English
Etymology
First attested in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English: from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "LL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. mētropolis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”).[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
metropolis (plural metropolises or metropoleis)
- (history) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony, especially in the Hellenistic world.
- The mother country of a colony.
- 2010, James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective:
- Colonies certainly did not become "clones" of their metropolises, but it is equally false that their colonial heritages were not influenced by the organization of the metropolises.
- The mother country of a colony.
- A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rural Life in England:
- An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.
- (canon law) The see of a metropolitan archbishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
- (ecology) A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.
Synonyms
- (colony’s founding polis): mother city, metropole
- (metropolitan archbishop’s see): archbishopric
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Translations
colony’s mother city
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large, busy city
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metropolitan archbishop — see archbishopric
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Dutch
Etymology
From Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: me‧tro‧po‧lis
Noun
metropolis f (plural metropolissen, diminutive metropolisje n)
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Latin
Etymology
Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “a mother city or state”), from μητρο- (mētro-, “mother-”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /meːˈtro.po.lis/, [meːˈt̪rɔpɔlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈtro.po.lis/, [meˈt̪rɔːpolis]
Noun
mētropolis f (genitive mētropolis or mētropoleōs or mētropolios); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mētropolis | mētropolēs mētropoleis |
| Genitive | mētropolis mētropoleōs mētropolios |
mētropolium |
| Dative | mētropolī | mētropolibus |
| Accusative | mētropolim mētropolin mētropolem1 |
mētropolēs mētropolīs |
| Ablative | mētropolī mētropole |
mētropolibus |
| Vocative | mētropolis mētropoli |
mētropolēs mētropoleis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin. The accusative singular mētropolem and the ablative singular mētropole occur in Medieval and New Latin.
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Descendants
- English: metropolis, metropole
- German: Metropolis f
See also
References
- “metropolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- metropolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 974.
- metropolis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “metropolis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “metropolis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “metropolis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
“colonia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
metròpolis m (Cyrillic spelling метро̀полис)
Declension
Declension of metropolis
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | metropolis | metropolisi |
| genitive | metropolisa | metropolisa |
| dative | metropolisu | metropolisima |
| accusative | metropolis | metropolise |
| vocative | metropolise | metropolisi |
| locative | metropolisu | metropolisima |
| instrumental | metropolisom | metropolisima |
Spanish
Noun
metropolis
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