civilitas
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kiːˈu̯iː.li.taːs/, [kiːˈu̯iːlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈvi.li.tas/, [t͡ʃiˈviːlit̪äs]
Noun
cīvīlitās f (genitive cīvīlitātis); third declension
- politics, the art/practice of government
- courteousness, politeness
- civility, moderation, restraint
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- → Catalan: civilitat
- → English: civility
- → French: civilité
- → Friulian: civiltât
- → Italian: civiltà, civilità
- → Piedmontese: siviltà
- → Portuguese: civilidade
- → Romanian: civilitate
- → Spanish: civilidad
References
- “civilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- civilitas 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)
- civilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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