polis

Pronunciation

• enPR: pōlĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈpɒ.lɪs/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “fortified town; city state”).

Etymology 2

From Standard English police, compare Scots polis.

Anagrams

• spoil

Etymology

From English police, from Middle French police, from Latin politia (“state, government”), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía).

Noun

polis

1. A police officer; a cop.
2. A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.

Etymology

Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis)

Noun

polis f

1. polis (ancient Greek city-state)

Related terms

Further reading

• polis in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• polis in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.lɪs/

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• Hyphenation: po‧lis

Etymology 1

From Italian polizza, from Latin apodixa, from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis, “proof”), from ἀποδείκνυμι (apodeíknumi, “I prove”).

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis).

Verb

polis

1. first-person singular present indicative of polir
2. second-person singular present indicative of polir
3. first-person singular past historic of polir
4. second-person singular past historic of polir
5. second-person singular imperative of polir

Participle

polis

1. masculine plural of the past participle of polir

Adjective

polis

1. masculine plural of poli

Anagrams

• poils

Noun

polīs

1. dative plural of polus
2. ablative plural of polus

References

• polis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• polis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• polis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• polis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Etymology

Ultimately from Polish polak, Russian поля́к (polják) (under the influence of Old High German pōl — cf. German, English Pole — and perhaps also of Latvian dialectal bolis, polis (“ox without horns”)), itself derived from Polish pole (“field”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“light (color), gray”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pūōlis]

Noun

polis m (2nd declension, feminine form: poliete)

1. a Pole, a Polish man, a man born in Poland

   pēc Livonijas kara poļi ieguva Vidzemi un Latgali ― after the Livonian War the Poles obtained Vidzeme and Latgale

2. (genitive plural) Polish; pertaining to Poland and its people

   poļu valoda ― the Polish language

   poļu māksla ― Polish art

References

Etymology

From Spanish policía and Portuguese polícia and Dutch politie.

Noun

polis

1. police
2. policeman

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolɪs/

Etymology 1

From the French police.

Etymology 2

References

• http://www.dsl.ac.uk/ - Dictionary of the Scots Language

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lis/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city-state”).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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Noun

polis c

1. police (as an organization or as an individual)

References

• polis in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Etymology 1

From English police.

Etymology 2

From English polish.

Etymology

Borrowed from French police.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈlis/
• Hyphenation: po‧lis

Noun

polis (definite accusative polisi, plural polisler)

1. police (an organisation that enforces the law)
2. police (member of the police force)