πόλεων (poleon)

πόλεων 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 plural feminine noun.

Found 1,139 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1127: οἳ μοῦνοι πολέων μοιρηγέται ἠδὲ πάρεδροι

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.2: … ’ ἡμέραν ἀναγκαίου τροφῆς πανταχοῦ ἂν ἡγούμενοι ἐπικρατεῖν, οὐ χαλεπῶς ἀπανίσταντο, καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ οὔτε μεγέθει πόλεων ἴσχυον οὔτε τῇ ἄλλῃ παρασκευῇ.

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 9: … εν, ἐκρήξεις πυρὸς ὀρείου καὶ ζέσεις θαλασσίας, καὶ πετρῶν καὶ φλεγμονῶν ὑπὸ πνεύματος ἀναρρίψεις, καὶ φθορὰς πολεων ἅμα τοσούτων καὶ τηλικούτων, ὡς μεθʼ ἡμέραν ἐπελθοῦσιν ἄγνοιαν εἶναι καὶ ἀσάφειαν ὅπου κατῴκηντο τῆς χώρας συ …

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.