ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΝ, μητροπολιν
MĒTROPOLIN, mētropolin
Sounds Like: mee-tro-PO-lin
Translations: metropolis, a metropolis, mother city, a mother city, capital city, a capital city
From the root: ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a 'mother city' or 'capital city', often the chief city of a region or colony from which other cities were founded. It is a compound word formed from 'μήτηρ' (mother) and 'πόλις' (city). It is used to denote a principal city, especially in relation to its colonies or dependent towns. For example, one might say 'they traveled to the metropolis' to indicate a journey to the main city.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3389 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
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
- ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ — metropolis, a metropolis, mother city, capital city
- ΤΗΣΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ — of the mother city, of the metropolis, of the capital city
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