ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΟΝ, μητροπολειτον
MĒTROPOLEITON, mētropoleiton
Sounds Like: mee-tro-po-LEE-ton
Translations: metropolitan, of the metropolis, a metropolis, the metropolis
From the root: ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word is an inflected form of 'metropolis' (ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ), which refers to the mother city or capital of a region or province. As an adjective, it describes something belonging to or related to a metropolis. As a noun, it can refer to the metropolis itself. In the provided example, it appears to be an adjective modifying 'πόλεμον' (war), meaning 'metropolitan war' or 'war of the metropolis'.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine or Neuter (as an adjective); or Genitive, Plural (as a noun)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 19:5
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
- 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
- ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ — metropolis, a metropolis, mother city, capital city
- ΤΗΣΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ — of the mother city, of the metropolis, of the capital city
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