Talk:metropoli

RFV discussion for the English entry
This entry was generated automatically, presumably based on Widsith's addition to metropolis. A Google search turns up this word only on foreign language pages, not English, and it is not the plural one would expect from a Latin or Greek root. The English-form plural is metropolises (for the "city" definition), and I can find evidence that the plural for the Orthodox sense is metropolia, but I can't find metropoli. --EncycloPetey 17:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * A few google books hits for "metropoli like": . Kappa 17:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * 216 for metropoleis: . † Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 17:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * And all of them are about the ancient world, not the modern definition, so that works for only one sense. The question is still whether metropoli is valid, not what other forms are out there. --EncycloPetey 17:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Now there are three citations for each sense. † Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 00:33, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Only just saw this discussion. For reference, the OED lists the following plural forms: metropolisses (16th century, now obsolete), metropolis's (17th century, now obsolute), and the current ones metropolises (attested since 18th century) and metropoli (attested since 19th century). Widsith 15:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

RFV failed. Reports of this being cited have been greatly exaggerated. Entry deleted. —RuakhTALK 00:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * FYI: In Latin, the plural of metropolis, metropolis (3rd declension) should be metropoles. I understand it's a Greek word, but the English is most probably filtered through Latin, and hence may well take the latin plural. 18:40, 9 April 2008 (UTC)