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What (who) is métèque - definition
FOREIGN RESIDENT OF ATHENS, ONE WHO DID NOT HAVE CITIZEN RIGHTS IN THEIR GREEK CITY-STATE (POLIS) OF RESIDENCE
Metics; Métèques; Meteques; Métèque; Prostates; Xenikon telos
Le Métèque
ORIGINAL SONG WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY GEORGES MOUSTAKI
Le métèque; Le Meteque
Le métèque is a French chanson by Georges Moustaki (1934–2013). He wrote it in 1969, and it was his first breakthrough hit, reaching number one in the French charts for six non-consecutive weeks.
Metic
·noun A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen.
metic
['m?t?k]
¦ noun a foreigner living in an ancient Greek city who had some of the privileges of citizenship.
Origin
C19: formed irregularly from Gk metoikos, from meta- (expressing change) + oikos 'dwelling'.
Wikipedia
Metic
In ancient Greece, a metic (Ancient Greek: μέτοικος, métoikos: from μετά, metá, indicating change, and οἶκος, oîkos 'dwelling') was a foreign resident of Athens, one who did not have citizen rights in their Greek city-state (polis) of residence.
