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Latin
Etymology
From cīvis (“citizen”) + -icus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cīvicus (feminine cīvica, neuter cīvicum); first/second-declension adjective
- civic, civil, pertaining to citizens
- of or pertaining to a city or town
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “civicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “civicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- civicus 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)
- civicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “civicus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 156