Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πολιήτης ‎(poliḗtēs) Ionic

Noun

πολῑ́της • ‎(polī́tēs) m ‎(genitive πολῑ́του); first declension

1. citizen, freeman
2. fellow citizen, compatriot

Inflection

Synonyms

• πολῖτις ‎(polîtis, feminine)

Derived terms

• πολῑτικός ‎(polītikós)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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

Noun

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

1. citizen, resident of town or city

   Αμερικανός πολίτης (American citizen)

2. civilian, not of the church or armed forces

Declension

Related terms

see: πόλη