politia

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See also: poliția

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολῑτείᾱ (polīteíā, “citizenship; government; civil polity”).

Pronunciation[edit]

(Classical) IPA^(key): /po.liːˈtiː.a/, [pɔlʲiːˈt̪iːä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.liˈti.a/, [poliˈt̪iːä]

Noun[edit]

polītīa f (genitive polītīae); first declension

(Late Latin) state, government
- 1313, Dante Alighieri, “Liber I [Book 1]”, in De monarchia [About monarchy]:
  Genus humanum solum imperante Monarcha, sui, et non alterius gratia, est: tunc enim solum Politiae diriguntur obliquae, democratiae scilicet, oligarchiae atque tyrannides, quae in servitute cogunt genus humanum.
  Only when the monarch rules, mankind exists for his own sake, and not of others: for only then are the twisted governments rightened, namely democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies, which force mankind into slavery.

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	polītīa	polītīae
Genitive	polītīae	polītīārum
Dative	polītīae	polītīīs
Accusative	polītīam	polītīās
Ablative	polītīā	polītīīs
Vocative	polītīa	polītīae

Descendants[edit]

→ Catalan: policia
→ Middle French: policie, politie
- → English: policy, polity
- → Middle Dutch: policie
  - Dutch: politie
- → Middle Low German: politīe
  - → Danish: politi
- → Middle High German: policei
  - German: Polizei
    - → Czech: policie
    - → Romanian: polițai
    - → Ukrainian: поліца́й (policáj)
- French: police
  - → English: police
  - → Romanian: poliție
  - → Swedish: polis
→ Galician: policía
→ Italian: polizia
→ Occitan: polícia
→ Portuguese: polícia
→ Sicilian: pulizzìa, polizzìa, polizzia, pulizzia
→ Spanish: policía

Further reading[edit]

“politia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“politia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
politia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
politia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian[edit]

Noun[edit]

politia

definite nominative/accusative singular of politie

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