πόλις – Ancient Greek noun declension

Noun: πόλις
Hyphenation:

Gender:

Nominative

Singular	πόλῐς
Dual	πόλη; πόλει; πόλῐε
Plural	πόλεις; πόλῐες; πόληες

Singular	pólĭs
Dual	pólē; pólei; pólĭe
Plural	póleis; pólĭes; pólēes

Genitive

Singular	πόλεως; πόλῐος; πόληος; πόλεος
Dual	πολέοιν; πολῐ́οιῐ̈ν
Plural	πόλεων; πολήων; πολῐ́ων

Singular	póleōs; pólĭos; pólēos; póleos
Dual	poléoin; polĭ́oiĭ̈n
Plural	póleōn; polḗōn; polĭ́ōn

Dative

Singular	πόλει; πόλῑ; πόλῃ; πόλῐῐ̈; πόληῐ̈
Dual	πολέοιν; πολῐ́οιῐ̈ν
Plural	πόλεσῐ; πόλεσῐν; πόλῐσῐ; πόλῐσῐν; πόλῐσσῐ; πόλῐσσῐν; πολῐ́εσσῐ; πολῐ́εσσῐν

Singular	pólei; pólī; pólēi; pólĭĭ̈; pólēĭ̈
Dual	poléoin; polĭ́oiĭ̈n
Plural	pólesĭ; pólesĭn; pólĭsĭ; pólĭsĭn; pólĭssĭ; pólĭssĭn; polĭ́essĭ; polĭ́essĭn

Accusative

Singular	πόλῐν; πόληᾰ
Dual	πόλη; πόλει; πόλῐε
Plural	πόλεις; πόλῐᾰς; πόληᾰς; πόλεᾰς; πόλῑς

Singular	pólĭn; pólēă
Dual	pólē; pólei; pólĭe
Plural	póleis; pólĭăs; pólēăs; póleăs; pólīs

Vocative

Singular	πόλῐ
Dual	πόλη; πόλει; πόλῐε
Plural	πόλεις; πόλῐες; πόληες

Singular	pólĭ
Dual	pólē; pólei; pólĭe
Plural	póleis; pólĭes; pólēes

Sample Sentences

παρὰ δ’ εὔπυργος πόλις ἀνδρῶν,
χρῡ́σειαι δέ μιν εἶχον ὑπερθυρίοις ἀραρυῖαι
ἑπτὰ πύλαι·
parà d’ eúpurgos pólis andrôn,
khrū́seiai dé min eîkhon huperthuríois araruîai (Next, there was a city of men with goodly towers; and seven gates of gold, fitted to the lintels, guarded it.) [c. 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 270–272]
431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.15
431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.23.47
411 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 245
411 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 758
411 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 288
424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1093
c. 370 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.1.27
300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Nehemiah 11.1
46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pelopidas 18
64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 8.6.8
c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.170
200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.39.3
c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.177
406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1533
c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.230
522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 5.48
458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 77
413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 294
421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 251
445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Andocides 6
c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.144
c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.14
429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 179
c. 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 240
522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.88
429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 22
408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 947
442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 738
c. 370 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.2.28
384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1276A.23
428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 319A
384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1280B.40
384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1 66
405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 718
361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 106
519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Collected Works 56
375 BCE, Plato, The Republic 422E

Nouns inflected like πόλις

πόλις,

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ptólis, from Proto-Indo-European *tpólHis, from *tpelH- (“fortification; city”). The early form πτόλις (ptólis) shows metathesis tp > pt because Ancient Greek stop clusters always end in a coronal. Cognate with Sanskrit पुर॑ (púra, “fortress, city, dwelling”) and Lithuanian pilis (“stronghold”). Irregular accent on genitive πόλεως (póleōs) is due to a quantitative metathesis from older πόληος (pólēos); genitive plural imitates genitive singular.

Verbs referencing "πόλις"

Romanian Nouns polis, Spanish Nouns polis, Latvian Nouns pils, Greek Nouns πόλη, English Nouns policlinic, Czech Nouns poliklinika, German Nouns Polis, Spanish Nouns policlínica, Ukrainian Nouns поліклініка.