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The word police certainly has its origins or roots in the word polis but it doesn't remotely mean the same thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police https:
by DoreenMichele 3y ago
The word police certainly has its origins or roots in the word polis but it doesn't remotely mean the same thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police
I also would think they are pronounced differently, but a quick Google isn't clarifying how polis is pronounced and my two classes of classical Greek taken eons ago aren't sufficient background for me to be confident about my pronunciation of the word.
If anyone could cast light on the pronunciation of polis, that would be cool.
- stavros 3y agoPolis is pronounced mostly the same as police, except the stress is on the first syllable.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI thought the stress would be on the first syllable. I also thought this means the second syllable should be a short i, consistent with how we pronounce metropolis. Because police stresses the second syllable, it sounds like ee not a short i. So I didn't readily make the connection between the two words in part because they are spelled different and in part because I don't think they sound alike.