μητρόπολις

Ancient Greek

From μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) +‎ πόλῐς (pólis, “city state, city”).

μητρόπολῐς • (mētrópolis) f (genitive μητροπόλεως); third declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μητρόπολῐς hē mētrópolis	τὼ μητροπόλει tṑ mētropólei	αἱ μητροπόλεις hai mētropóleis
Genitive	τῆς μητροπόλεως tês mētropóleōs	τοῖν μητροπολέοιν toîn mētropoléoin	τῶν μητροπόλεων tôn mētropóleōn
Dative	τῇ μητροπόλει têi mētropólei	τοῖν μητροπολέοιν toîn mētropoléoin	ταῖς μητροπόλεσῐ / μητροπόλεσῐν taîs mētropólesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μητρόπολῐν tḕn mētrópolin	τὼ μητροπόλει tṑ mētropólei	τᾱ̀ς μητροπόλεις tā̀s mētropóleis
Vocative	μητρόπολῐ mētrópoli	μητροπόλει mētropólei	μητροπόλεις mētropóleis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“μητρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μητρόπολις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μητρόπολις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G3390 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
μητρόπολις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- capital idem, page 111.
- metropolis idem, page 527.
- mother idem, page 542.

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