metropolis
See also: Metropolis, métropolis, metrópolis, and metròpolis
English
Etymology
First attested in Middle English: from Late Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”).[1] Doublet of metropole.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɪˈtɹɒpəlɪs/[1]
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Noun
metropolis (plural metropolises or metropoleis or metropoles or metropolizes or metropoli or (obsolete) metropolisses or (obsolete) metropolis's)
- (historical, especially Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.
- Synonyms: mother city, metropole
- 2010, James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective:
- Colonies certainly did not become "clones" of their metropolises, but it is equally false that their colonial heritages were not influenced by the organization of the metropolises.
- A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
- Coordinate term: capital city
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rural Life in England:
- An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.
- 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:
- [I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.
- 1983, “Sleeper in Metropolis”, in Changing Places, performed by Anne Clark:
- Love is dead in metropolis / All contact through glove or partition
- (Orthodox Christianity) The see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
- Synonym: archbishopric
- (ecology) A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- metro
- metropole
- Metropolis
- metropolitan
Related terms
Related terms
- megalopolis
- regiopolis
Translations
colony’s mother city
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large, busy city
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see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops
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References
- The Concise Oxford English Dictionary [Eleventh Edition]
Anagrams
- simple root
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”).
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: me‧tro‧po‧lis
Noun
metropolis f (plural metropolissen, diminutive metropolisje n)
- metropolis
Synonyms
- metropool
Related terms
- metropoliet
- metropolitaans
Latin
Etymology
Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “a mother city or state”), from μητρο- (mētro-, “mother-”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /meːˈtro.po.lis/, [meːˈt̪rɔpɔlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈtro.po.lis/, [meˈt̪rɔːpolis]
Noun
mētropolis f (genitive mētropolis or mētropoleōs or mētropolios); third declension
- metropolis
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mētropolis | mētropolēs mētropoleis |
| Genitive | mētropolis mētropoleōs mētropolios | mētropolium |
| Dative | mētropolī | mētropolibus |
| Accusative | mētropolim mētropolin mētropolem1 | mētropolēs mētropolīs |
| Ablative | mētropolī mētropole | mētropolibus |
| Vocative | mētropolis mētropoli | mētropolēs mētropoleis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.The accusative singular mētropolem and the ablative singular mētropole occur in Medieval and New Latin.
Derived terms
- mētropolītānus
Related terms
- Mētropolis
Descendants
- Catalan: metròpoli
- French: métropole
- Italian: metropoli
- Piedmontese: metròpol
- Portuguese: metrópole
- Spanish: metrópoli
- English: metropolis, metropole
- German: Metropolis
See also
- māter
References
- “metropolis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- metropolis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 974
- metropolis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “metropolis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “metropolis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “metropolis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
“colonia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
metròpolis m (Cyrillic spelling метро̀полис)
- A metropolis
Declension
Declension of metropolis
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | metropolis | metropolisi |
| genitive | metropolisa | metropolisa |
| dative | metropolisu | metropolisima |
| accusative | metropolis | metropolise |
| vocative | metropolise | metropolisi |
| locative | metropolisu | metropolisima |
| instrumental | metropolisom | metropolisima |