civis

Meaning

1. (declension-3) citizen
2. (broadly, declension-3) a subject (i.e., a person subject to a ruler)

Concepts

citizen

burgess

townsman

bourgeois

inhabitant

subject

indweller

Translations

citoyen

cidadão

ciudadano

Staatsbürger

cittadino

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Bürger

ciutadà

πολίτης

Bürgerin

staatsburger

burger

υπήκοος

Staatsbürgerin

مواطن

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈkiː.wɪs]

Etymology

From Old Latin ceivis, from Proto-Italic *keiwis, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to settle, be lying down”).