Your Greek Word On A Sunday
Award nominated, bite-size podcast. Every Sunday, Greek words used in the English language. Travelling words, connecting cultures.
Your Greek Word On A Sunday
Metropolis
Hello, and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!
I adore big cities! You can keep getting surprised by them, explore and discover new things and London is one of my favourite ones! Ancient Greeks didn’t have the sense of a capital city the way we have it today. They did however have city-states that had colonised others and therefore influenced socially, financially, politically and culturally more than their own population. Those city-states where called Mother-Cities . In English the combined word came from Latin and French and meant the one that belongs to a Mother-City referring primarily to bishops. Of course as time went by, the meaning widened and turned into 'Capital' or 'very important city'. Μήτηρ (mitir) in Ancient Greek and Μητέρα (mitera) in modern means ‘mother’ and πόλις (polis) means 'city' . ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ/METROPOLIS
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Hello, and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go!
I adore big cities!. You can keep getting surprised by them, explore and discover new things and London is one of my favorite ones! Ancient Greeks didn’t have the sense of a capital city the way we have it today. They did however have city-states that had colonised others and therefore influenced socially, financially, politically and culturally more than their own population. Those city states where called Mother Cities . In English the combined word came from Latin and French and meant the one that belongs to a mother city referring primarily to bishops. Of course as time went by the meaning widened And turned into Capital or very important City. Μήτηρ in Ancient Greek and μητέρα in modern means ‘mother’ and πόλις means city . ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ/METROPOLIS
