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πτόλῐς (ptólĭs) — Epic

From Proto-Hellenic *ptólis, from Proto-Indo-European *tpólHis, from *tpelH- (“fortification, city”). The early form πτόλις (ptólis) shows metathesis tp > pt because Ancient Greek stop clusters always end in a coronal. Cognate with Sanskrit पुर (pura, “fortress, city, dwelling”) and Lithuanian pilis (“stronghold”). Irregular accent on genitive πόλεως (póleōs) is due to a quantitative metathesis from older πόληος (pólēos); genitive plural imitates genitive singular.

IPA(key): /pó.lis/ → /ˈpo.lis/ → /ˈpo.lis/
(5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pó.lis/
(1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpo.lis/
(4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.lis/
(10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.lis/
(15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpo.lis/

πόλις • (pólis) f (genitive πόλεως); third declension

city
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 270–272:
  παρὰ δ’ εὔπυργος πόλις ἀνδρῶν,
  χρῡ́σειαι δέ μιν εἶχον ὑπερθυρίοις ἀραρυῖαι
  ἑπτὰ πύλαι·
  parà d’ eúpurgos pólis andrôn,
  khrū́seiai dé min eîkhon huperthuríois araruîai
  heptà púlai;
  Next, there was a city of men with goodly towers; and seven gates of gold, fitted to the lintels, guarded it.
1. the Athenian citadel
2. one's city or country
3. (ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως (ho epì tês póleōs)) city governor, praetor urbanus
a whole country, as dependent on and called after its city: city state
community
1. the state
2. the right of citizenship
(πόλιν παίζειν (pólin paízein)) a type of board game

ἄστυ (ástu), πτολίεθρον (ptolíethron)
Ἀγησίπολις (Agēsípolis)
Ἀμφίπολις (Amphípolis)
Ἀντίπολις (Antípolis)
Δεκάπολις (Dekápolis)
Ἡλίου πόλις (Hēlíou pólis)
Ἱεράπολις (Hierápolis)
Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis)
Λυκόπολις (Lukópolis)
Μεγαλόπολις (Megalópolis)
μητρόπολις (mētrópolis)
Νεάπολις (Neápolis)
Νικόπολις (Nikópolis)
Περσέπολις (Persépolis)
πόλινδε (pólinde)
πόλισμα (pólisma)
πολιτεία (politeía)
πολίτης (polítēs)
πολιτικός (politikós)
Πυθόπολις (Puthópolis)
Σευθόπολις (Seuthópolis)
Χρυσόπολις (Khrusópolis)
Greek: πόλη (póli)
Yevanic: בּוֹלִי (boli)
→ Coptic: ⲡⲟⲗⲓⲥ (polis)
→ English: polis (learned)
→ Latin: -polis
- → English: -polis (learned)
“πόλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πόλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“πόλις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
πόλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
πόλις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“πόλις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G4172 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- capital idem, page 111.
- city idem, page 133.
- commonwealth idem, page 149.
- community idem, page 149.
- country idem, page 178.
- fatherland idem, page 310.
- metropolis idem, page 527.
- municipality idem, page 546.
- nation idem, page 551.
- people idem, page 604.
- republic idem, page 699.
- state idem, page 812.
- town idem, page 884.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1219

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