πόλεος (poleos)

πόλεος is an Ancient Greek form of πολύς, meaning “much, many, great”.

It can also be a form of πόλις, “city, state”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.289: Εἰλείθυια θεὰ πολέος ἐμέγηρε τόκοιο.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.2.54: … κ Σικελίας, αὐτὸς ἐναρχόμενος τῶν Καθαρμῶν φησιν· ὦ φίλοι οἳ μέγα ἄστυ κατὰ ξανθοῦ Ἀκράγαντος ναίετʼ ἀνʼ ἄκρα πόλεος. καὶ τὰ μὲν περὶ τοῦ γένους αὐτοῦ τάδε. Ἀκοῦσαι δʼ αὐτὸν Πυθαγόρου Τίμαιος διὰ τῆς ἐνάτης ἱστορεῖ, λέγων ὅτι …

All forms of πολύς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.