metropolis

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Late Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”). By surface analysis, metro- +‎ -polis. Doublet of metropole. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: me‧tro‧po‧lis (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɪˈtɹɒp.ə.lɪs/ (General American) IPA(key): /məˈtɹɑp.ə.lɪs/ === Noun === metropolis (plural metropolises or metropoleis or metropoles or metropolizes or metropoli or (obsolete) metropolisses or (obsolete) metropolis's) (history, especially Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony. Synonyms: mother city, metropole A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas. Synonym: metropolitan city Hyponyms: megacity, megalopolis Holonym: metropolitan area Coordinate term: capital city (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 ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === simple root == Dutch == === Etymology === From Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: me‧tro‧po‧lis === Noun === metropolis f (plural metropolissen, diminutive metropolisje n) metropolis ==== Synonyms ==== metropool ==== Related terms ==== metropoliet metropolitaans == Indonesian == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /mɛtroˈpolis/ [mɛ.t̪roˈpo.lɪs] Rhymes: -olis Syllabification: me‧tro‧po‧lis === Noun === metropolis (plural metropolis-metropolis) (history, especially Ancient Greece) metropolis (colony’s mother city) (urban studies) metropolis (large, busy city) (Orthodox Christianity) metropolis (see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops) ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “metropolis”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “a mother city or state”), from μητρο- (mētro-, “mother-”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [meːˈtrɔ.pɔ.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [meˈtrɔː.po.lis] === Noun === mētropolis f (genitive mētropolis or mētropoleōs or mētropolios); third declension (Late Latin) metropolis ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem). 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, 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 == Middle English == === Noun === metropolis plural of metropol == Serbo-Croatian == === Noun === metròpolis m inan (Cyrillic spelling метро̀полис) A metropolis ==== Declension ====