metropolitan的词源

英文词源

metropolitan (n.)

early 15c., "bishop having oversight of other bishops," from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek metropolis "mother city" (from which others have been colonized), also "capital city," from meter "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + polis "city" (see polis).

In Greek, "parent state of a colony;" later, "see of a metropolitan bishop." In the West, the position now roughly corresponds to archbishop, but in the Greek church it ranks above it.

metropolitan (adj.)

1540s, "belonging to an ecclesiastical metropolis," from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek metropolites "resident of a city," from metropolis (see metropolitan (n.)). Meaning "belonging to a chief or capital city" is from 1550s. In reference to underground city railways, it is attested from 1867.

中文词源

metropolitan：大都会的

来自metropolis,大都会。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：metropolitan 词源，metropolitan 含义。

metropolitan：大都市的，首都的 

词根词缀： metro(-matr-)母 + -polit-城市 + -an形容词词尾