ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ, μητροπολις
MĒTROPOLIS, mētropolis
Sounds Like: mee-tro-PO-lees
Translations: metropolis, a metropolis, mother city, capital city
From the root: ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a 'mother city' or a 'capital city'. It is a compound word formed from 'μήτηρ' (mother) and 'πόλις' (city). In ancient times, it often referred to the founding city of a colony, or the chief city of a region or province. It can be used in sentences to describe a major urban center or the administrative heart of an area.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3388 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Isaiah — 1:26
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙ — (to) the metropolis, (to) a metropolis, (to) the mother city, (to) a mother city
- ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΟΝ — metropolitan, of the metropolis, a metropolis, the metropolis
- ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΣΙΝ — (to) mother cities, (to) capital cities, (to) metropolises
- ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΝ — of metropolises, of mother cities, of capital cities
- ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ — of a mother city, of a metropolis, of a capital city
- ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΝ — metropolis, a metropolis, mother city, a mother city, capital city, a capital city
- ΤΗΣΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ — of the mother city, of the metropolis, of the capital city
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