Etymology
From French cité which comes from the Latin civitas meaning "an organized community" a "a civilized place".
Noun
city (plural: cities)
- a large settlement, bigger than a town. In Europe a city is a place that had succeeded to obtain the right to build a city wall, a belfort, etc... from the impoverishing nobility.
Translations
- Breton: keoded f -où pl, kêr f -ioù pl
- Dutch: stad f
- Esperanto: urbo
- French: ville f
- German: Stadt f
- Hebrew: עיר (Iear) f
- Interlingua: citate
- Japanese: 都市 (toshi)
- Korean: 도시 [都市] (dosi)
- Latin: urbs urbis, civitas -itatis
- Polish miasto n
- Portuguese: cidade
- Romanian: oraş n, cetate f, urbe f
- Spanish: ciudad f, urbe
- Volapük: zif
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