-polis

Learned borrowing from Latin -polis, from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city”).

-polis (proper noun-forming suffix)
-polis (noun-forming suffix, plural -poleis or -polises)

1. Forms names of cities or kinds of cities.

• spoil

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [po.lis] (stressed on antepenult)

-polis f (genitive -polis, -polēos, -polios)

1. Forms names of cities
2. (New Latin) as a declinable word to introduce a placename named after a Saint, e.g. Fanum Sancti Iohannis for the various places named Saint John('s), San Juan, etc.

   Synonyms: fanum, urbs, oppidum

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• → English: -polis (learned)
• → Portuguese: -polis (learned)

Learned borrowing from Latin -polis, borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis).

-polis f (noun-forming suffix, invariable)

1. forms names of cities

• Unlike in English, this is not normally used to form kinds of cities. For that function, -pole is used instead.

• “-polis”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

• psilo