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μητρόπολις

Bailly

μητρό·πολις, εως (ἡ) propr. ville-mère, càd. :
   I au pr. :
      1 métropole, ville qui a fondé ou colonisé d’autres villes, PD. P. 4, 20 ; ESCHL. Pers. 895 ; HDT. 7, 51, etc. ; THC. 1, 24, etc. ; en parl. d’un pays, HDT. 8, 31 ;
      2 ville principale ou capitale, XÉN. An. 5, 2, 3 ; 5, 4, 15 ;
      3 ville natale, patrie, PD. N. 5, 16 ; SOPH. O.C. 707 ;
   II fig. source, fondement, HPC. 249, 49 ; Dor. 1, 2 ; PLUT. M. 718 e, etc.

➳ DS. ματρόπολις [ᾱ] PD. ll. cc.

Étym. μ. πόλις.

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LSJ

Dor. ματρόπολις, poet. μητρόπτολις, Epigr.Gr. 537.4 (Tomi), 842a1 (Cyrene), Syria 7.209 (Damascus), Nonn. D. 13.166; εως, ἡ : — mother-state, as related to her colonies, of Athens in relation to the Ionians, Hdt. 7.51, Th. 6.82; of Doris in relation to the Peloponn. Dorians, Hdt. 8.31, Th. 1.107, 3.92; of Meroe in relation to the Ethiopians, Hdt. 2.29; of Thera, μεγαλᾶν πολίων μ. Pi. P. 4.20; μ. Λοκρῶν Ὀπόεις Simon. 93; of the Attic Salamis, as the μ. of the Cyprian, A. Pers. 895 (lyr.); of Corinth, as the μ. of Corcyra, Th. 1.24; of Rome, Gal. 14.296. metaph, ἐστὶ μ. τοῦ ψυχροῦ [ὁ ἐγκέφαλος] Hp. Carn. 4; ἡ ἱστορία μ. τῆς φιλοσοφίας D.S. 1.2, cf. Chrysipp. Stoic. 3.199; γεωμετρία ἀρχὴ καὶ μ. τῶν ἄλλων (sc. μαθημάτων) Philol. ap. Plu. 2.718e.
one΄s mother-city, mothercountry, home, Pi. N. 5.8, S. OC 707 (lyr.), Ant. 1122 (lyr.). ἁσὰ ματρόπολις thy mother΄s city, Isyll. 59.
capital city, X. An. 5.2.3, 5.44.15; ἡ μ. τῆς Ἀσίας, of Ephesus, OGI 496.6, IG 3.485; ἡ μ. τῆς Ἰωνίας, of Miletus, ib. 480. in Egypt, chief town of a νομός, PRev. Laws 48.16 (iii BC), BGU 326 ii 10 (ii AD), etc.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)

Pape

ἡ, die Mutterstadt in Beziehung auf die von ihr ausgegangenen Colonien od. Tochterstädte ; μεγαλᾶν πολίων ματρόπολιν γενέσθαι, Pind. P. 4.20 ; von Attika, Soph. O.C. 711 ; auch Βακχᾶν μητρόπολιν Θήβαν, Ant. 1109 ; in Prosa, Her. 7.51, 8.31 ; Thuc. 1.24, 107 u. öfter ; Plat. Critia. 115c. Bei Ath. XII.547d Geburtsstadt der Mutter. – Uebtr. ἱστορία μ. τῆς φιλοσοφίας, DS. 1.2 ; vgl. Ath. III.104b.

Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)

TBESG

μητρό-πολις, -εως, ἡ
[in LXX for אָב etc. ;]
a metropolis, chief city: ITi, subscr. (Rec.).†
(AS)

Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek based on Abbot-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) (=AS), with corrections and adapted by Tyndale Scholars