| 1 | French | police | police; cop; policy |
| 2 | Italian | polizia | police |
| 3 | Russian | поли́ция | — |
| 4 | Polish | policja | police |
| 5 | German | Polizei | police |
| 6 | Catalan | policia | police; policeman, policewoman |
| 7 | Late Latin | politia | citizenship; government; state, government |
| 8 | Latin | polītīa | — |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | πολιτεία | the relation in which a citizen stands to the... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 12 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |