Where does “metris” come from?
metris (Finnish) comes from Finnish metroasema, from Finnish metro, from French métro, from French métropolitain, from Latin mētropolītānus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις, from Ancient Greek πόλις — fortification, city.
metris (Finnish): A subway/metro station, especially one on the...
Definitions
- A subway/metro station, especially one on the...
Ancestry of “metris”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | metroasema | subway/underground station, metro station |
| 2 | Finnish | metro | an underground, a subway, a Tube or a metro |
| 3 | French | métro | metro; subway US, underground UK, Tube UK |
| 4 | French | métropolitain | metropolitan; subway, underground; Person from... |
| 5 | Latin | mētropolītānus | metropolitan |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μητροπολίτης | metropolitan |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | μητρόπολις | mother-state; one's mother-city, mother country,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | πόλις | city; a whole country, as dependent on and called... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | ptólis | city |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | tpólHis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | tpelH- | fortification, city |