cive

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

cive (plural cives)

  1. 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)

  1. chive
    Synonym: ciboulette

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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).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ve/
  • Rhymes: -ive
  • Hyphenation: cì‧ve

Noun[edit]

cive m (plural civi)

  1. (literary, obsolete) citizen
    Synonym: cittadino
    • early-mid 1310smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎[1], lines 100–102; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      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]‎[3], 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]‎[4], lines 1, 5–6; collected in Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, La Caccia di Diana e le Rime[5], 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]

Noun[edit]

cīve

  1. ablative singular of cīvis

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

cive

  1. Alternative form of cyvee

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

cive

  1. Alternative form of sive

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin cēpa.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡sivə/, (northern) /ˈt͡ʃivə/

Noun[edit]

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

  1. (often in the plural) chive

Descendants[edit]

  • French: cive
  • Middle English: cyve, chive, sive

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