politia
See also: poliția
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολῑτείᾱ (polīteíā, “citizenship; government; civil polity”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /po.liːˈtiː.a/, [pɔlʲiːˈt̪iːä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /po.liˈti.a/, [poliˈt̪iːä]
Noun
polītīa f (genitive polītīae); first declension
- (Late Latin) state, government
- 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.
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Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | polītīa | polītīae |
| Genitive | polītīae | polītīārum |
| Dative | polītīae | polītīīs |
| Accusative | polītīam | polītīās |
| Ablative | polītīā | polītīīs |
| Vocative | polītīa | polītīae |
Descendants
- → Catalan: policia
- → Middle French: policie, politie
- → English: policy, polity
- → Middle Dutch: policie
- Dutch: politie
- → Middle Low German: politīe
- → Danish: politi
- → Middle High German: policei
- German: Polizei
- French: police
- → English: police
- → Romanian: poliție
- → Swedish: polis
- → Galician: policía
- → Italian: polizia
- → Occitan: polícia
- → Portuguese: polícia
- → Sicilian: pulizzìa, polizzìa, polizzia, pulizzia
- → Spanish: policía
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