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