cive

English

Noun

cive (plural cives)

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

Anagrams

• ICEV, Vice, vice, vice-

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French

Etymology

From Old French cive, from Latin cēpa, caepa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siv/

Noun

cive f (plural cives)

1. chive

Synonyms

• ciboulette

Related terms

• ciboule

See also

• oignon
• échalote

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cīvem, accusative of cīvis, 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/, [ˈt͡ʃiːve]
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: cì‧ve

Noun

cive m (plural civi)

1. (literary, obsolete) citizen
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXXII, lines 100–102, page 498:

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

     Short while shalt thou be here a forester, and thou shalt be with me for evermore a citizen of that Rome where Christ is Roman.

   Synonym: cittadino

Related terms

• città
• civile
• civiltà

Anagrams

• veci, vice

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Latin

Noun

cīve

1. ablative singular of cīvis

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French civé.

Noun

cive

1. Alternative form of cyvee

Etymology 2

From Old English sife.

Noun

cive

1. Alternative form of sive

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin cēpa, caepa.

Noun

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

1. (often in the plural) chive

Descendants

• English: chive
• French: cive