Significatio vocis civitas | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. citizenship and its rights; often referring to Roman citizenship.
   Classical-Latin, declension-3
2. "The City"
   Classical-Latin, declension-3
3. Rome
   Classical-Latin, declension-3
4. the state, body politic, citizens of a territory (collectively).
   Classical-Latin, declension-3
5. Jerusalem
   Medieval-Latin, declension-3
6. a city and all external territory (thus distinguished from urbs).
   Classical-Latin, declension-3, metonymically
7. city-states, kingdoms, or tribes, especially under Roman rule.
   Classical-Latin, declension-3, metonymically
8. a city: a major, biblical, or specially incorporated town, particularly cathedral cities.
   Medieval-Latin, declension-3
9. a borough: a walled settlement, sometimes particularly former Roman towns.
   Medieval-Latin, declension-3
10. either the Church or Heaven.
    Ecclesiastical, Latin, declension-3
11. State, country.
    New-Latin, declension-3

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“His diebus Langobardi Italia invaserunt, Vincentiam Veronamque et reliquas Venetiarum civitates coepit, et per tres annos Ticino possedit.”

In those days that the Lombards invaded Italy, he began Vincentia & Verona and the rest of the Venetian cities, and possessed Ticino for three years.

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