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πόλις

polis

citadel, fort, city, city community, state

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Densest 12 of 283 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. πόλις · polis — Beekes

citadel, fort, city, city community, state

2. πόλις · polis — Chantraine

ἢ avec un doublet πτόλις (Hom

3. πόλις · polis — Frisk

auch (ep

4. πόλις · polis — Frisk

Ablautsbetrachtungen bei Strunk Glotta 47 (1969) 2£

5. πόλις · polis — LSJ

city, the citadel, the city of, oneʼs city, country, islands, community, body of citizens

Attestations

6 of 9,469 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) scan pp. 1270-1271; entry #5089 Review: Under source audit

    OCR root-candidate values are withheld pending source verification, rights review, and scholarly review. No root, reconstruction, cognate, or historical relationship is asserted here.

  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque scan p. 943; entry #6658 Review: Under source audit
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan pp. 1548-1549; entry #4752 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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