πολίτης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πολῐήτης (poliḗtēs) — Epic, Ionic

Etymology

From πόλις (pólis, “city”) +‎ -της (-tēs). The ῑ from the stem of πόλις led to the backformation -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs), whence the reanalysis πολ-ῑ́της (pol-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.lǐː.tɛːs/ → /poˈli.tis/ → /poˈli.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.lǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /poˈli.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /poˈli.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /poˈli.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /poˈli.tis/

Noun

πολῑ́της • (polī́tēs) m (genitive πολῑ́του); first declension (Attic, Koine)

1. citizen, freeman
2. fellow citizen, compatriot

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πολῑ́της ho polī́tēs	τὼ πολῑ́τᾱ tṑ polī́tā	οἱ πολῖται hoi polîtai
Genitive	τοῦ πολῑ́του toû polī́tou	τοῖν πολῑ́ταιν toîn polī́tain	τῶν πολῑτῶν tôn polītôn
Dative	τῷ πολῑ́τῃ tôi polī́tēi	τοῖν πολῑ́ταιν toîn polī́tain	τοῖς πολῑ́ταις toîs polī́tais
Accusative	τὸν πολῑ́την tòn polī́tēn	τὼ πολῑ́τᾱ tṑ polī́tā	τοὺς πολῑ́τᾱς toùs polī́tās
Vocative	πολῖτᾰ polîta	πολῑ́τᾱ polī́tā	πολῖται polîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ὁ πολῑ́της; τοῦ πολῑ́του (Attic)

Synonyms

• πολῖτις (polîtis, feminine)

Derived terms

• πολῑτεύω (polīteúō)
• πολῑτικός (polītikós)
• πολῑτοφῠ́λᾰξ (polītophúlax)

 

Further reading

• “πολίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πολίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πολίτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πολίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• πολίτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4177 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • citizen idem, page 133.
  • civilian idem, page 133.
  • compatriot idem, page 150.
  • countryman idem, page 178.
  • fellow idem, page 314.
  • native idem, page 551.
  • townsman idem, page 884.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πολίτης (polítēs).

Noun

πολίτης • (polítis) m or f (plural πολίτες, feminine πολίτισσα or πολίτις)

1. citizen, resident of town or city

   Αμερικανός πολίτης (American citizen)

2. civilian, not of the church or armed forces

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	πολίτης (polítis)	πολίτες (polítes)
genitive	πολίτη (políti)	πολιτών (politón)
accusative	πολίτη (políti)	πολίτες (polítes)
vocative	πολίτη (políti)	πολίτες (polítes)

Derived terms

• συμπολίτης (sympolítis)

Related terms

• see: πόλη f (póli, “town, city”)

Further reading

• πολίτης, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• πολίτης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el