Where does “metropole” come from?
Metropole comes from French métropole, from Latin metropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις, combining μήτηρ (mother) and πόλις (city).
metropole (English): A metropolis; the main city of a country or area;...
Definitions
- A metropolis; the main city of a country or area;...
Ancestry of “metropole”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | metropol | A chief city, metropolis |
| 2 | Middle French | metropole | — |
| 3 | Latin | mētropolis | metropolis |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μητρόπολις | mother-state; one's mother-city, mother country,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πόλις | city; a whole country, as dependent on and called... |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | ptólis | city |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | tpólHis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tpelH- | fortification, city |