megalopoli
See also: Megalopoli
English
Noun
megalopoli
- plural of megalopolis
- 1967, William Rudolph Ewald, Environment for Man: The Next Fifty Years (Indiana 1967, p. 140)
- All the megalopoli of the future—in this country and elsewhere—will transcend national boundaries in many ways.
- 1972, David Harvey, Society, the City, and the Space-economy of Urbanism (Association of American Geographers 1972, p. 14)
- This problem has been made more serious in the contemporary city by the emergence of a new form of spatial ordering in the form of sprawling megalopoli.
- 1976, Robert Theobald, Beyond Despair (Michigan 1976, p. 153)
- With these developments came urbanization and centralization, which trends have culminated in the mega-farms and megalopoli of the present.
- 1997, Stephen Metz, Strategic Horizons (Diane Publishing 1997, p. 9)
- The population of megalopoli like Mexico City and Sao Paulo will be well over 20 million by the end of the 20th century.
- 1998, John M. Collins, Military Geography (Diane Publishing, p. 199)
- Table 20. Present and Projected Megalopoli (more than 10 million inhabitants […]
- 1967, William Rudolph Ewald, Environment for Man: The Next Fifty Years (Indiana 1967, p. 140)
Finnish
Etymology
Derived from English megalopolis, with -s dropped on analogy with metropoli.
Noun
megalopoli
- megalopolis
Declension
| Inflection of megalopoli (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | megalopoli | megalopolit | |
| genitive | megalopolin | megalopolien | |
| partitive | megalopolia | megalopoleja | |
| illative | megalopoliin | megalopoleihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | megalopoli | megalopolit | |
| accusative | nom. | megalopoli | megalopolit |
| gen. | megalopolin | ||
| genitive | megalopolin | megalopolien | |
| partitive | megalopolia | megalopoleja | |
| inessive | megalopolissa | megalopoleissa | |
| elative | megalopolista | megalopoleista | |
| illative | megalopoliin | megalopoleihin | |
| adessive | megalopolilla | megalopoleilla | |
| ablative | megalopolilta | megalopoleilta | |
| allative | megalopolille | megalopoleille | |
| essive | megalopolina | megalopoleina | |
| translative | megalopoliksi | megalopoleiksi | |
| instructive | — | megalopolein | |
| abessive | megalopolitta | megalopoleitta | |
| comitative | — | megalopoleineen | |