cive – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of cive

Noun: cive
Gender: m Hyphenation: cì‧ve
Singular mcive
Plural mcivi

Sample Sentences

  • 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.) [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:]
  • 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) [[1385–1396, Francesco di Bartolo, “Paradiso - Canto Ⅷ [Paradise - Canto 8]”, in Commento di Francesco da Buti sopra la Divina commedia di Dante Allighieri [Commentary of Francesco da Buti on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Commedia_(Buti)), C. VIII — v. 115-120.; republished, Pisa: Fratelli Nistri, 1858, page 283:]
  • 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.) [14ᵗʰ century, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amor, che con sua forza e virtù regna [Love, who reigns with Its strength and virtue]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Caccia_e_Rime_(Boccaccio)/Rime/XXII), lines 1, 5–6; collected in Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, La Caccia di Diana e le Rime^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Caccia_e_Rime_(Boccaccio)), 1914, page 65:]

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”). See: Latin Nouns 'cīvis'.

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