Etymology

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Today it means: In Ancient Greek city-states, a resident alien who did not have the rights of a citizen and who paid a tax for the right to live there. Full definition →

Late Latin metycus ← Ancient Greek μέτοικος
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromμέτοικος“foreigner, metic”
  2. Late Latin · borrowed frommetycus
  3. English todaymetic

From Late Latin metycus (also metoecus), from Ancient Greek μέτοικος (métoikos, “foreigner, metic”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekμέτοικος all →

metœcus

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