cive

English

Noun

cive (plural cives)

1. Obsolete form of chive (“the herb”).

Anagrams

• ICEV, Vice, vice, vice-

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cive, from Latin cēpa, caepa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siv/

Noun

cive f (plural cives)

1. chive

   Synonym: ciboulette

Related terms

• ciboule

See also

• oignon
• échalote

Further reading

• “cive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cīvem, from Proto-Italic *keiwis (“society”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéy-wo-s (“intimate, friendly”), derived from the root *ḱey- (“to settle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: cì‧ve

Noun

cive m (plural civi)

1. (literary, obsolete) citizen

   Synonym: cittadino

   • early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎^[1], lines 100–102; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Qui sarai tu poco tempo silvano;
     e sarai meco sanza fine cive
     di quella Roma onde Cristo è romano.

     You will be a forester here for a short time, and you will be with me forevermore a citizen of that Rome where Christ is Roman.

   • [1385–1396, Francesco di Bartolo, “Paradiso - Canto Ⅷ [Paradise - Canto 8]”, in Commento di Francesco da Buti sopra la Divina commedia di Dante Allighieri [Commentary of Francesco da Buti on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy]‎^[3], C. VIII — v. 115-120.; republished, Pisa: Fratelli Nistri, 1858, page 283:

     Cive è vocabulo di Grammatica che viene a dire cittadino, e tanto viene a dire in quanto convivente, cioè insieme vivente

     Cive is a word of grammar which means “citizen”, and that is what it means, as in one who lives together]

   • 14^th century, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amor, che con sua forza e virtù regna [Love, who reigns with Its strength and virtue]‎^[4], lines 1, 5–6; collected in Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, La Caccia di Diana e le Rime‎^[5], 1914, page 65:

     Amor […]
     […]
     Dimostra el cuor divoto a sua deitate
     E del suo regno el fa ministro e cive.

     Love shows Its godhood to the devoted heart, and makes it minister and citizen in Its own kingdom.

Related terms

• città
• civile
• civiltà

Anagrams

• veci, vice, vice-

Latin

Noun

cīve

1. ablative singular of cīvis

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

cive

1. Alternative form of cyvee

Etymology 2

Noun

cive

1. Alternative form of sive

Old French

Alternative forms

• chive (Normano-Picard)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cēpa.

Pronunciation

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sivə/, (northern) /ˈt͡ʃivə/

Noun

cive oblique singular, f (oblique plural cives, nominative singular cive, nominative plural cives)

1. (often in the plural) chive

Descendants

• French: cive
• → Middle English: cyve, chive, sive
  • English: chive
  • Scots: sye, sythe

References

• “cive”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.