civis

Borrowed from Latin cīvis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːʋis/, [ˈk̟iːʋis̠]
• Rhymes: -iːʋis
• Syllabification^(key): ci‧vis
• Hyphenation^(key): ci‧vis

civis

1. (university slang) A member of a student nation (osakunta) who is no longer a freshman (fuksi).

• Contrary to nearly all loanwords in Finnish, a borrowed nominative plural cives is sometimes used.

• beaani (“first year student nation member”, in some nations)

• “civis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From Old Latin ceivis, from Proto-Italic *keiwis, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to settle, be lying down”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkiː.wɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.vis]

cīvis m or f (genitive cīvis); third declension

1. citizen

   Synonym: mūniceps

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 908–909:

     SĪMŌ: Eho tū, Glycerium hinc cīvem esse ais? / CRĪTŌ: Tū negās?

     SIMO: Hey you, are you saying that Glycerium is a citizen from here?
     CRITO: Do you deny it?

2. (by extension) a subject (i.e., a person subject to a ruler)

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

• → Italian: cive (learned)
• → Oscan: ceus (from Old Latin ceivis)

• “civis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “civis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "civis", 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)
• civis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the aristocracy (as a party in politics): boni cives, optimi, optimates, also simply boni (opp. improbi); illi, qui optimatium causam agunt
    
  • a citizen of the world; cosmopolitan: mundanus, mundi civis et incola (Tusc. 5. 37)
    
  • a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus
    
• “civis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “civis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• “civis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• Hyphenation: ci‧vis

civis

1. plural of civil

civis

1. plural of civil