See μητρόπολις in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"depth": 1,
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"1": "el",
"2": "μητρόπολη"
},
"expansion": "Greek: μητρόπολη (mitrópoli)",
"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "Greek: μητρόπολη (mitrópoli)"
},
{
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"1": "la",
"2": "metropolis",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Latin: metropolis",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Latin: metropolis"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "metropolis",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: metropolis",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: metropolis"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "métropole",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: métropole",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ French: métropole"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "metropoli",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: metropoli",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: metropoli"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "metrópoli",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: metrópoli",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: metrópoli"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "metrópole",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: metrópole",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: metrópole"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Metropole",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Metropole",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Metropole"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "metropool",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: metropool",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: metropool"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "metropol",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norwegian: metropol",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Norwegian: metropol"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "μήτηρ",
"3": "πόλῐς",
"t1": "mother",
"t2": "city state, city"
},
"expansion": "μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλῐς (pólĭs, “city state, city”)",
"name": "affix"
}
],
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{
"form": "μητρόπολῐς",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "mētrópolĭs",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
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{
"form": "μητροπόλεως",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "Attic declension-3",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "grc-decl",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Third declension",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "ἡ μητρόπολῐς",
"roman": "hē mētrópolĭs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλει",
"roman": "mētropólei",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "αἱ μητροπόλεις",
"roman": "hai mētropóleis",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τῆς μητροπόλεως",
"roman": "tês mētropóleōs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπολέοιν",
"roman": "mētropoléoin",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλεων",
"roman": "mētropóleōn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τῇ μητροπόλει",
"roman": "têi mētropólei",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπολέοιν",
"roman": "mētropoléoin",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "ταῖς μητροπόλεσῐ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλεσῐν",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "taîs mētropólesĭ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "taîs mētropólesĭn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τὴν μητρόπολῐν",
"roman": "tḕn mētrópolĭn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλει",
"roman": "mētropólei",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "τᾱ̀ς μητροπόλεις",
"roman": "tā̀s mētropóleis",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "μητρόπολῐ",
"roman": "mētrópolĭ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
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"roman": "mētropólei",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"vocative"
]
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{
"form": "μητροπόλεις",
"roman": "mētropóleis",
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"plural",
"vocative"
]
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"2": "f",
"3": "third",
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}
],
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"state",
"state"
]
]
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{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "7 56 19 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 22 33 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
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{
"_dis": "3 86 6 6",
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
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{
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"home",
"home"
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"capital city",
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{
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"parents": [],
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"capital city",
"capital city"
],
[
"town",
"town"
],
[
"district",
"district"
],
[
"νομός",
"νομός#Ancient_Greek"
]
],
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"capital city",
"(in Egypt) chief town of a district or νομός (nomós)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in Egypt"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/mɛː.tró.po.lis/"
},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/"
},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɛː.tró.po.lis/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/me̝ˈtro.po.lis/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"word": "μητρόπολις"
}
{
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"Ancient Greek 4-syllable words",
"Ancient Greek compound terms",
"Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"Ancient Greek feminine nouns",
"Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension",
"Ancient Greek lemmas",
"Ancient Greek nouns",
"Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms",
"Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "el",
"2": "μητρόπολη"
},
"expansion": "Greek: μητρόπολη (mitrópoli)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Greek: μητρόπολη (mitrópoli)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "metropolis",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Latin: metropolis",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Latin: metropolis"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "metropolis",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: metropolis",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: metropolis"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "métropole",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: métropole",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ French: métropole"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "metropoli",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: metropoli",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: metropoli"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "metrópoli",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: metrópoli",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: metrópoli"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "metrópole",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: metrópole",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: metrópole"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Metropole",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Metropole",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Metropole"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "metropool",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "metropol",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norwegian: metropol",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
],
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"2": "μήτηρ",
"3": "πόλῐς",
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"name": "affix"
}
],
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"form": "μητρόπολῐς",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
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"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
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]
},
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"source": "inflection",
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"class"
]
},
{
"form": "ἡ μητρόπολῐς",
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"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλει",
"roman": "mētropólei",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "αἱ μητροπόλεις",
"roman": "hai mētropóleis",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τῆς μητροπόλεως",
"roman": "tês mētropóleōs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπολέοιν",
"roman": "mētropoléoin",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλεων",
"roman": "mētropóleōn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τῇ μητροπόλει",
"roman": "têi mētropólei",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπολέοιν",
"roman": "mētropoléoin",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "ταῖς μητροπόλεσῐ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλεσῐν",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
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"form": "taîs mētropólesĭ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "taîs mētropólesĭn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τὴν μητρόπολῐν",
"roman": "tḕn mētrópolĭn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλει",
"roman": "mētropólei",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "τᾱ̀ς μητροπόλεις",
"roman": "tā̀s mētropóleis",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "μητρόπολῐ",
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"source": "inflection",
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"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλει",
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"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "μητροπόλεις",
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"source": "inflection",
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"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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"2": "f",
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"head": "μητρόπολῐς"
},
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"name": "grc-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "grc",
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{
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"mother-state (in relation to her colonies)"
],
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"one's mother-city, mother country, home"
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[
"mother country",
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[
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"capital city",
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[
"town",
"town"
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[
"district",
"district"
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[
"νομός",
"νομός#Ancient_Greek"
]
],
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"(in Egypt) chief town of a district or νομός (nomós)"
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]
}
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},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/"
},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɛː.tró.po.lis/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/me̝ˈtro.po.lis/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/miˈtro.po.lis/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"word": "μητρόπολις"
}
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