metropolis
Βίων δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Bion used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Bion said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
capital: use P. and V. πόλις (Thuc. 2, 15).
mother city (of colonies): P. μητρόπολις, ἡ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mētrŏpŏlis: is, f., = μητρόπολις,
I a city from which other cities have been colonized, a mother-city; also, the chief city, metropolis of a province (post-class.).
I Lit., Cod. Just. 11, 21; Cod. Th. 13, 3, 11.—
II Trop.: metropolis et arx mentis, Hier. adv. Jovin. 2, 8.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) mētrŏpŏlis, is, f. (μητρόπολις), [ville- mère], métropole, capitale d’une province : Spart. Hadr. 14, 1 || source, origine : Hier. Jovin. 2, 3.
Latin > German (Georges)
(1) mētropolis1, Akk. im, Abl. ī, f. (μητρόπολις), die Mutterstadt, d.i. von der andere Städte ihre Kolonisten erhalten haben; od. die Hauptstadt einer Provinz, die sich zu den anderen Städten verhält wie eine Mutter zu ihren Töchtern, rein lat. mater (w. vgl.) oder patria maior, Spart. Hadr. 14, 1. Cod. Iust. 11, 22 (21), 1. Cod. Theod. 13, 3, 11. – bildl., Hieron. adv. Iovin. 2. sect. 3.
Latin > English
metropolis metropolis N F :: chief/capital city; city from which other cities have been colonized (L+S)
Translations
Albanian: metropol; Bulgarian: метрополия; Catalan: metròpolis, metròpoli; Dutch: metropolis, metropool, moederstad; Esperanto: metropolo; Estonian: metropol; Finnish: metropolis, emämaa; French: métropole; Greek: μητρόπολη; Hungarian: metropolisz, anyaország; Irish: ceannchathair; Khmer: មាតុក្រុង, ទីក្រុងមេ; Kurdish Northern Kurdish: metropol; Latin: metropolis; Latvian: metropole; Norwegian: metropol; Polish: metropolia; Portuguese: metrópole; Romanian: metropolă; Russian: столи́ца, метропо́лия; Serbo-Croatian: метро̀пола, metropola; Tagalog: metropoli; Turkish: metropol; Ukrainian: метрополія; Volapük: metropoel
