Metic
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
In ancient Greece, the term metic (metá, indicating change, and oikos "dwelling") meant resident alien, a person who did not have citizen rights in their Greek city-state (polis) of residence.
If it had been borrowed early, Greek métoikos would become Latin metoecus and English metecous or the like. But because it was borrowed when Greek oi was pronounced as y (see Koine Greek phonology), it was transliterated into Latin as metycus. English metic replaces y with i, perhaps by analogy with the -ic suffix.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Metic" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
