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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολῑτείᾱ (polīteíā, “citizenship; government; civil polity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
polītīa f (genitive polītīae); first declension
- (Late Latin) state, government, administration
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
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Further reading
- “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
Noun
politia
- definite nominative/accusative singular of politie