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πολίχνη

From LSJ

Οὐδ' ἄμμε διακρινέει φιλότητος ἄλλο, πάρος θάνατόν γε μεμορμένον ἀμφικαλύψαι → Nor will anything else divide us from our love before the fate of death enshrouds us

Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3.1129f.
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Full diacritics: πολίχνη Medium diacritics: πολίχνη Low diacritics: πολίχνη Capitals: ΠΟΛΙΧΝΗ
Transliteration A: políchnē Transliteration B: polichnē Transliteration C: polichni Beta Code: poli/xnh

English (LSJ)

ἡ, Dim. of πόλις, fort, small town, Th.7.4, Call.Del.41. Plu. Tim.11, etc.; in earlier writers only as pr. n., Πολίχνη, Att. Πολίχνα, a city in Chios, Hdt.6.26; in Ionia, Th.8.14, etc.; in the Megarid, v.l. in Il.2.557:—hence Πολιχνῖται, οἱ, inhabitants of a city in Crete, Hdt.7.170.

German (Pape)

[Seite 657] ἡ, dim. von πόλις, Städtchen; Thuc. 8, 14; Plut. Timol. 11; Callim. Del. 41.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ης (ἡ) :
petite ville.
Étymologie: πόλις.

Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)

πολίχνη -ης, ἡ [πόλις] stadje.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

πολίχνη:городок, местечко Plut.

Greek Monolingual

η, ΝΑ
μικρή πόλη
αρχ.
ως κύριο όν. ἡ Πολίχνη, αττ. τ. Πολίχνα
α) η πόλη της Χίου
β) πόλη της Ιωνίας
γ) πόλη στη Μεγαρίδα
δ) πόλη της δυτικής Κρήτης.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < πόλις + υποκορ. κατάλ. -ίχνη (πρβλ. κυλίχνη, πελίχνη)].

Greek Monotonic

πολίχνη: ἡ (πόλις), η μικρή πόλη, σε Πλούτ.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

πολίχνη: ἡ, (πόλις) μικρὰ πόλις, σπάνιος ὑποκορ. τύπος, Καλλ. εἰς Δῆλ. 41, Πλουτ. Τιμολ. 11, κτλ., ἀλλ’ ἀπαντᾷ παρὰ προγενεστέροις συγγραφ. ὡς κύρ. ὄν. Πολίχνη, Ἀττ. Πολίχνᾱ, πόλις ἐν Χίῳ, Ἡρόδ. 6. 26· ἐν Κρήτῃ, ὁ αὐτ. 7. 710, κτλ.· ἐν Ἰωνίᾳ, Θουκ. 8. 14· κτλ.

Middle Liddell

πολίχνη, ἡ, πόλις
a small town, Plut.

Mantoulidis Etymological

(=μικρή πόλη). Ὑποκοριστικό τοῦ οὐσ. πόλις, ὅπου δές γιά περισσότερα παράγωγα.

Translations

Abkhaz: ақалақь; Adyghe: къалэ; Afrikaans: dorp; Ainu: コタン; Albanian: qytet, qytezë; Amharic: ከተማ; Arabic: مَدِينَة‎, قَرْيَة‎, بَلْدَة‎; Egyptian Arabic: مدينة‎; Aragonese: ziudat; Archi: шагьру; Armenian: քաղաք, ավան; Aromanian: cãsãbã; Assamese: নগৰ; Asturian: pueblu, ciudá; Avar: шагьар; Azerbaijani: şəhər; Baekje: 夫里; Bashkir: ҡала; Basque: herri; Bavarian: Ståd; Belarusian: горад, места; Bengali: শহর, নগর; Breton: kêr, kêrioù, kumun, kumunioù; Bulgarian: град; Burmese: မြို့; Buryat: хото; Catalan: poble, ciutat, vila; Cebuano: lungsod; Chamicuro: chi'nashtalichi; Chechen: юрт, гӏала; Cherokee: ᎦᏚᎲᎢ; Chickasaw: okla; Chinese Cantonese: 城市, 城鎮; Mandarin: 城市, 城, 鎮, 镇, 城鎮, 城镇; Chuvash: хула; Coptic: ⲃⲁⲕⲓ; Czech: město; Danish: by; Dutch: gemeente, stad, nederzetting, tuin; Eastern Mari: ола; Elfdalian: stað; Erzya: ош; Esperanto: urbo, urbeto; Estonian: linn; Faroese: býur; Finnish: pikkukaupunki, kunta, kaupunki; French: ville, commune, bourg, villette, villotte; Galician: vila; Georgian: ქალაქი; German: Stadt, Ort, Städtchen, Gemeinde; Greek: πόλη; Ancient Greek: ἄστυ, πολίχνιον; Greenlandic: illoqarfik; Gujarati: શહેર; Hausa: birni; Hebrew: עִיר‎, קִרְיָה‎, יִשּׁוּב‎; Higaonon: banuwa; Hindi: शहर, नगर; Hungarian: város; Icelandic: bær; Ido: urbo; Indonesian: kotamadya; Irish: baile, baile mór; Italian: città; Japanese: 街, 町, 都市; Kamba: taunii; Kannada: ನಗರ; Karelian: linna; Kashubian: gard; Kazakh: қала; Khmer: ទីក្រុង, ផ្សារ, កូនក្រុង, ក្រុងតូច; Kikuyu: taoni; Komi-Permyak: кар; Korean: 마을, 읍, 시; Kurdish Northern Kurdish: bajarok; Kyrgyz: шаар; Ladin: zità; Lao: ເມືອງ, ຊຽງ, ນະຄອນ; Latin: oppidum; Latvian: pilsēta; Lithuanian: miestelis; Luhya: mtauni, etauni; Lü: ᦵᦞᦇ, ᦵᦈᦲᧃᧈ, ᦵᦋᧂ; Macedonian: град, паланка; Malagasy: tanana; Malay: bandar; Malayalam: നഗരം; Maltese: raħal; Mansi: ӯс; Maori: tāone; Marathi: शहर; Meru: tauni; Moksha: ош; Mongolian: хот; Nanai: хотон; Navajo: kin shijaaʼ, kin łání, kin; Nivkh: хота; North Frisian: steed; Northern Thai: ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦ; Norwegian Bokmål: by; Nynorsk: by; Ojibwe: oodena; Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic: градъ, мѣсто; Old East Slavic: градъ, мѣсто, городъ; Old English: burg, tūn; Old French: vile; Old High German: burg, stat; Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰞𐰶‎; Oriya: ନଗର; Oromo: magaalaa; Ossetian: сахар, горӕт; Pashto: ښار‎; Pennsylvania German: Schtettel, Schteddel, Schteddelche, Schtettli, Schteddliche, Taun; Persian: شهر‎, شهرک‎; Plautdietsch: Staut; Polish: miasto, miasteczko; Portuguese: vila, aldeia, povoado, arraial; Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹਿਰ; Purepecha: iréta; Quechua: llaqta; Romanian: oraș, orașe; Romansch: citad; Russian: город, городок, посёлок, местечко, град; Rusyn: мі́сто; Sanskrit: नगर; Scots: toun; Scottish Gaelic: baile; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: град, варош, касаба, паланка; Roman: grad, varoš, kasaba, palanka; Shor: тура; Sinhalese: නගරය; Slovak: mesto; Slovene: mésto; Sorbian Lower Sorbian: město; Upper Sorbian: město; Spanish: ciudad, pueblo; Swahili: mji; Swedish: stad, tätort; Tabasaran: шагьур; Tagalog: bayan, syudad; Tajik: шаҳр; Tamil: நகரம்; Taos: plòso'óna; Tatar: шәһәр, кала; Telugu: పట్టణము, పట్నము; Tetum: sidade, vila; Thai: เมือง, พารา, นคร, เชียง; Tibetan: གྲོང་གསེབ, གྲོང་སྡེ; Tongan: kolo; Turkish: ilçe, kasaba, şehir, bucak; Turkmen: şäher; Tuvan: хоорай; Tzotzil: teklum, teklumal; Udmurt: кар; Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎗, 𐎎𐎄𐎐𐎚; Ukrainian: мі́сто, містечко; Urdu: شہر‎; Uyghur: شەھەر‎; Uzbek: shahar; Vietnamese: tỉnh, thành phố, thị trấn; Volapük: zif; Waray-Waray: bungto; Welsh: tref; West Frisian: stêd; Yakut: куорат; Yiddish: שטעטל‎, שטאָט‎; Yoruba: ìlú; Yucatec Maya: kaah; Zhuang: cinq