cive
English
Noun
cive (plural cives)
- Obsolete form of chive (“the herb”).
Anagrams
- ICEV, Vice, vice, vice-
French
Etymology
From Old French cive, from Latin cēpa, caepa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siv/
Noun
cive f (plural cives)
- chive
- Synonym: ciboulette
Related terms
- ciboule
See also
- oignon
- échalote
Further reading
- “cive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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)
- (literary, obsolete) citizen
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXXII, lines 100–102, page 498:
- Qui sarai tu poco tempo silvano; ¶ e sarai meco senza fine cive ¶ di quella Roma onde Cristo è romano.
- Short while shalt thou be here a forester, and thou shalt be with me for evermore a citizen of that Rome where Christ is Roman.
- Synonym: cittadino
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Related terms
- città
- civile
- civiltà
Anagrams
- veci, vice, vice-
Latin
Noun
cīve
- ablative singular of cīvis
Middle English
Noun
cive
- Alternative form of cyvee
Noun
cive
- Alternative form of sive
Old French
Alternative forms
- chive (Normano-Picard)
Etymology
From Latin cēpa, caepa.
Noun
cive f (oblique plural cives, nominative singular cive, nominative plural cives)
- (often in the plural) chive
Descendants
- French: cive
- → English: chive