Words that come from Latin “cīvis”

400 words across 55 languages descend from Latin cīvis — including city, civil, c., citizen, civilization, citizenship, civic, cit.

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English (143)

Romanian (26)

French (20)

Italian (20)

Spanish (17)

Finnish (16)

Latin (14)

Portuguese (14)

German (11)

Catalan (10)

Swedish (8)

Middle English (8)

Hungarian (7)

Old French (6)

Middle French (5)

Serbo-Croatian (5)

Kazakh (5)

Dutch (4)

Cornish (4)

Russian (4)

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Occitan (3)

Polish (3)

Asturian (3)

Turkish (2)

Ladin (2)

Scottish Gaelic (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Norman (2)

Late Latin (2)

Indonesian (2)

Tagalog (2)

Classical Nahuatl (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Galician (1)

Mirandese (1)

Tarantino (1)

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Ido (1)

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