civil
French
adj
Definitions
- civil war, marriage etc.
- (politics) lay
- civilian
- (literary) civil, courteous, polite
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cīvīlis (civil, relating to a citizen, civic, courteous).
Origin
Latin
cīvīlis
Gloss
civil, relating to a citizen, civic, courteous
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- civil English
- civilize English
- civilis Latin
- civilitas Latin
- civiliter Latin
- cīvis Latin
- cīvīlis Latin
- Zivil German
- zivilisieren German
- civile Italian
- civilisation French
- civiliser French
- цивилизовать Russian
- civil Spanish, Castilian
- *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European
- sivil Norwegian Bokmål
- civil Portuguese
- cível Portuguese
- sivil Norwegian Nynorsk
- civil Danish
- civil Old French
- civil Serbo-Croatian
- civil Catalan, Valencian
- civil Galician
- civil Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- civiliza Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sivil Turkish
- civil Norman
- civil Occitan
- ċivili Maltese
- civil Asturian
- zibil Basque
- zevil Ladin