Where does “μέτρο” come from?
μέτρο (Greek) 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.
μέτρο (Greek): measure, measurement; rule, ruler; measure,...
Definitions
- measure, measurement; rule, ruler; measure,...
Ancestry of “μέτρο”, step by step
μέτρο traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French métro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | métro | metro; subway US, underground UK, Tube UK |
| 2 | French | métropolitain | metropolitan; subway, underground; Person from... |
| 3 | Latin | mētropolītānus | metropolitan |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μητροπολίτης | metropolitan |
| 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 |
via Ancient Greek μέτρον
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 3 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |