civil engineering

English

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Etymology

civil (from Latin civilis, from cives 'citizen' + -ilis '-il(ian)') + the present participle of to engineer

Noun

civil engineering (uncountable)

1. The technical design and construction of public works (buildings, roads, harbors, public greens ...) and/or technically equivalent private (usually corporate) ones

Related terms

• civil engineer

Derived terms

• civils

Translations

technical design and construction of public works and/or equivalent private ones

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土木工程 (cmn) (tǔmùgōngchéng)

• Czech: stavební inženýrství (cs) n
• Dutch: burgerlijke bouwkunde (nl)
• Finnish: rakentaminen (fi) (construction), rakennussuunnittelu (fi) (design), rakennustekniikka (fi) (technology)
• French: génie civil (fr) m

• German: Bauingenieurwesen (de) n, Bauwesen (de) n
• Japanese: 土木工学 (ja) (どぼくこうがく, doboku kōgaku)
• Khmer: អសេនិកវិស្វកម្ម (km) (a’seenɨk vi’sva’kam), វិស្វកម្មស៊ីវិល (km) (vi’sva’kam siivɨl)
• Korean: 토목공학 (ko) (tomok-gonghak) (土木工學 (ko))
• Russian: строительная инженерия (ru) (stroítelʹnaja inženérija) f, гражданское строительство (ru) (graždánskoje stroíttelʹstvo) n
• Turkish: inşaat mühendisliği (tr)

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967