cive
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Noun Edit
cive (plural cives)
- Obsolete form of chive (“the herb”).
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French Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Old French cive, from Latin cēpa, caepa.
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Noun Edit
cive f (plural cives)
- chive
- Synonym: ciboulette
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Further reading Edit
- “cive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian Edit
Etymology Edit
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”).
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Noun Edit
cive m (plural civi)
- (literary, obsolete) citizen
- Synonym: cittadino
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XXXII”, in Purgatorio, lines 100–102:
- 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][1], 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]
- 14th century, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amor, che con sua forza e virtù regna [Love, who reigns with Its strength and virtue][2], lines 1, 5–6; collected in Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, La Caccia di Diana e le Rime[3], 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.
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Latin Edit
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cīve
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Etymology 1 Edit
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cive
- Alternative form of cyvee
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cive
- Alternative form of sive
Old French Edit
Alternative forms Edit
- chive (Normano-Picard)
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
cive f (oblique plural cives, nominative singular cive, nominative plural cives)
- (often in the plural) chive