pólis
Portuguese, noun
pólis is spelled P-Ó-L-I-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 35,921st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pólis is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “polis (a city or city-state in Ancient Greece)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, polis is a different word: “second-person plural present indicative of polir”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cidade-estado na Grécia antiga”.
What does pólis mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepolis (a city or city-state in Ancient Greece)
suffix
- 1
feminineforms names of cities
verb
- 1
second-person plural present indicative of polir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cidade-estado na Grécia antiga
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to pólis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pólis in Portuguese?
pólis appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).