cité
Champenois
Etymology
Inherited from Old French citet, Latin cīvitās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.te/
Noun
cité f (plural cités)
- (Troyen) city
References
- Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
- Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux[2] (in French), Troyes
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle French cité, from Old French citet, from older ciptet, from Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”).
Noun
cité f (plural cités)
- city
- Synonym: ville
- citizenship
- Synonym: citoyenneté
- obtenir la cité ― to obtain citizenship
- a fortified city, city-state, or historic city centre specifically
- la Cité des Papes ― the city of popes (Avignon)
- (historical, Canada) a municipality with city rather than town status
- housing estate
- complex of buildings or district set aside for a specific purpose; campus
Usage notes
- This word is usually used in historical, technical, or metaphorical senses, with the usual term for a town or city of any size being ville.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
cité (feminine citée, masculine plural cités, feminine plural citées)
- past participle of citer
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French cité.
Noun
cité f (plural citez)
Descendants
- French: cité
Old French
Noun
cité oblique singular, f (oblique plural citez, nominative singular cité, nominative plural citez)
- alternative form of citet
Spanish
Verb
cité
- first-person singular preterite indicative of citar