cive

cive (plural cives)

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

• ICEV, Vice, vice, vice-

From Old French cive, from Latin cēpa, caepa.

cive f (plural cives)

1. chive

• ciboulette

• ciboule

• oignon
• échalote

Borrowed from Latin cīvem, accusative of cīvis, 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/, [ˈt͡ʃiːve]
• 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

cīve

1. ablative singular of cīvis

From Old French civé.

cive

1. Alternative form of cyvee

From Old English sife.

cive

1. Alternative form of sive

From Latin cēpa, caepa.

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

1. (often in the plural) chive

• English: chive
• French: cive