cive

cive (plural cives)

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

• ICEV, Vice, vice, vice-

From early (XIII-XIV century) Italian sevo, from Latin sēbum. The alteration of initial spirant s into an affricate t͡s and the stressed -é suffix indicate that the word might have infiltrated via Greek.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /t͡siˈvɛ/

civé f (plural cive, definite civeja, definite plural civetë)

1. type of sofrito, made with chopped onions or leeks, sautéed in oil with chilly-peppers, used as a condiment
2. type of gruel, made with pan-fried flour, garlic, or walnuts

• “cive”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

Inherited from Old French cive, from Latin cēpa, caepa.

• IPA^(key): /siv/

cive f (plural cives)

1. chive

   Synonym: ciboulette

• ciboule

• oignon
• échalote

• “cive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin cīvem, 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/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: cì‧ve

cive m (plural civi)

1. (literary, obsolete) citizen

   Synonym: cittadino

   • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 100–102; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Qui sarai tu poco tempo silvano;
     e sarai meco sanza fine cive
     di quella Roma onde Cristo è romano.

     You will be a forester here for a short time, and you will be with me forevermore a citizen of that Rome where Christ is Roman.

   • [1385–1396, Francesco di Bartolo, “Paradiso - Canto Ⅷ [Paradise - Canto 8]”, in Commento di Francesco da Buti sopra la Divina commedia di Dante Allighieri [Commentary of Francesco da Buti on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy]‎^[2], C. VIII — v. 115-120.; republished, Pisa: Fratelli Nistri, 1858, page 283:

     Cive è vocabulo di Grammatica che viene a dire cittadino, e tanto viene a dire in quanto convivente, cioè insieme vivente

     Cive is a word of grammar which means “citizen”, and that is what it means, as in one who lives together]

   • 14^th century, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amor, che con sua forza e virtù regna [Love, who reigns with Its strength and virtue]‎^[3], lines 1, 5–6; collected in Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, La Caccia di Diana e le Rime‎^[4], 1914, page 65:

     Amor […]
     […]
     Dimostra el cuor divoto a sua deitate
     E del suo regno el fa ministro e cive.

     Love shows Its godhood to the devoted heart, and makes it minister and citizen in Its own kingdom.

• città
• civile
• civiltà

• veci, vice, vice-

cīve

1. ablative singular of cīvis

cive

1. alternative form of cyvee

cive

1. alternative form of sive

• chive (Normano-Picard)

Inherited from Latin cēpa.

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sivə/, (northern) /ˈt͡ʃivə/

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

1. (often in the plural) chive

• French: cive
• → Middle English: cyve, chive, sive
  • English: chive
  • Scots: sye, sythe

• “cive”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.