cive

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English

Noun

cive (plural cives)

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

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cive, from Latin cēpa, caepa.

Pronunciation

Noun

cive f (plural cives)

  1. chive
    Synonym: ciboulette

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Further reading

Italian

Etymology

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

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

Noun

cive m (plural civi)

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

Noun

cīve

  1. ablative singular of cīvis

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

cive

  1. Alternative form of cyvee

Etymology 2

Noun

cive

  1. Alternative form of sive

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cēpa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. (often in the plural) chive

Descendants

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

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