cive

cive (plural cives)

1. Obsolete form of chive (“the herb”).

• ICEV, Vice, vice, vice-

From Old French cive, from Latin cēpa, caepa.

• IPA^(key): /siv/

cive f (plural cives)

1. chive

   Synonym: ciboulette

• ciboule

• oignon
• échalote

• “cive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: cì‧ve

cive m (plural civi)

1. (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

• città
• civile
• civiltà

• veci, vice, vice-

cīve

1. ablative singular of cīvis

cive

1. Alternative form of cyvee

cive

1. Alternative form of sive

• chive (Normano-Picard)

From Latin cēpa, caepa.

cive f (oblique plural cives, nominative singular cive, nominative plural cives)

1. (often in the plural) chive

• French: cive
• → English: chive