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πόλις (polis): all forms

πόλις means “city, state”. Below is its full declension in Ancient Greek.

Forms

Forms, singular
Feminine
Nominativeπόλις
Genitiveπόλεως
Dativeπόλει
Accusativeπόλιν
Vocativeπόλι
Forms, plural
Feminine
Nominativeπόλεις
Genitiveπόλεων
Dativeπόλεσι(ν)
Accusativeπόλεις
Vocativeπόλεις

Meaning and examples of πόλις

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.