metropolitanus
Metropolitanus is a Latin adjective meaning “of the metropolis” or “metropolitan.” It is formed from the Greek root metropolis through Latinization and has masculine, feminine, and neuter forms: metropolitanus, metropolitan a, metropolitanum. In classical and medieval Latin, the term functions as a descriptive modifier that agrees with the noun it modifies.
In ecclesiastical usage, metropolitanus commonly appears in Latin texts to denote the rank or prerogatives of
Beyond church contexts, metropolitanus can occur in scholarly Latin to describe objects, institutions, or concepts tied
Etymologically, metropolitanus reflects the same root as the English term metropolitan, illustrating how Latin predicates adapt