cive
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
cive (plural cives)
- Obsolete form of chive (“the herb”).
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French cive, from Latin cēpa, caepa.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cive f (plural cives)
- chive
- Synonym: ciboulette
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Further readingEdit
- “cive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cive m (plural civi)
- (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
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LatinEdit
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cīve
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
cive
- Alternative form of cyvee
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
cive
- Alternative form of sive
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- chive (Normano-Picard)
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
cive f (oblique plural cives, nominative singular cive, nominative plural cives)
- (often in the plural) chive