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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryForms names of cities or kinds of cities.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tpelH- Proto-Hellenic *ptólis Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis)bor. Latin -polislbor. English -polis Learned borrowing from Latin -polis, from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city”). Doublet of -ple.
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