The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμέγας“large”
- English todaymegapolis
From mega- (“great”) + -polis (“city”), from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “large”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμέγας all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.