politia

See also: poliția

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολῑτείᾱ (polīteíā, “citizenship; government; civil polity”).

Pronunciation

Noun

polītīa f (genitive polītīae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) state, government, administration
    • 1313, Dante Alighieri, “Liber I [Book 1]”, in De monarchia [About monarchy]:
      Genus humanum solum imperante Monarcha, sui, et non alterius gratia, est: tunc enim solum Politiae diriguntur obliquae, democratiae scilicet, oligarchiae atque tyrannides, quae in servitute cogunt genus humanum.
      Only when the monarch rules, mankind exists for his own sake, and not of others: for only then are the twisted governments rightened, namely democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies, which force mankind into slavery.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative polītīa polītīae
genitive polītīae polītīārum
dative polītīae polītīīs
accusative polītīam polītīās
ablative polītīā polītīīs
vocative polītīa polītīae

Descendants

Further reading

  • “politia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “politia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "politia", 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)
  • politia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Noun

politia

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of politie
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