civilis

From cīvis (“citizen”) +‎ -īlis.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kiːˈwiː.lis/, [kiːˈwiː.lɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈvi.lis/, [t͡ʃiˈviː.lis]

cīvīlis (neuter cīvīle); third declension

1. Of or pertaining to citizens; civic, civil.
2. Of or pertaining to public or political life; public, political.
3. (figuratively) Courteous, polite, civil, affable, urbane.
4. (substantive) courtesy, civility

Third declension.

• comparative: cīvīlior, superlative: cīvīlissimus

• (civil, civic): cīvicus
• (political): polīticus
• (public): commūnis, pūblicus

• (courteous, civil): incīvīlis

• civilis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• civilis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• civilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• civilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to teach some one letters: erudire aliquem artibus, litteris (but erudire aliquem in iure civili, in re militari)
    
  • statesmen: viri rerum civilium, rei publicae gerendae periti or viri in re publica prudentes
    
  • statesmanship; political wisdom: prudentia (civilis) (De Or. 1. 19. 85)
    
  • political questions: res civiles
    
  • to enter the whirlpool of political strife: se civilibus fluctibus committere
    
• civilis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers