isopolity
isopolity noun: equal rights of citizenship in different communities; mutual political rights.
Noun
isopolity (countable and uncountable, plural isopolities)
- Equal rights of citizenship in different communities; mutual political rights.
- Isopolity...was a relation entered into by treaty between two perfectly equal and independent cities, mutually securing to their citizens all those privileges which a resident alien either could not exercise at all, or only through the mediation of a guardian; the right of intermarriage, of...1832, Barthold Niebuhr, The History of Rome, volume 2
- A mutual exchange of the private rights of citizenship established the relationship of isopolity...and carried with it the right of intermarriage...and the right to hold land and houses...in each other's dominions.1911, Coleman Phillipson, The International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome, volume 1
Forms of isopolity
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Origin of isopolity
From Ancient Greek ἰσοπολιτεία (isopoliteía), from ἰσοπολίτης (isopolítēs, “citizen with equal rights”), from ἴσος (ísos, “equal, same”) + πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”).
Words formed from isopolity
Questions about isopolity
- What does isopolity mean?
- Isopolity means equal rights of citizenship in different communities; mutual political rights.
- What part of speech is isopolity?
- Isopolity is a noun.
- What is the plural of isopolity?
- The plural of isopolity is isopolities.
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