politia

See also: poliția

Latin

Etymology

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολῑτείᾱ (polīteíā, “citizenship; government; civil polity”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    polītīa f (genitive polītīae); first declension

    1. (Late Latin) state, government, administration
      • 1313, Dante Alighieri, “Liber I [Book 1]”, in De monarchia [About monarchy]:
        Genus humanum solum imperante Monarcha, sui, et non alterius gratia, est: tunc enim solum Politiae diriguntur obliquae, democratiae scilicet, oligarchiae atque tyrannides, quae in servitute cogunt genus humanum.
        Only when the monarch rules, mankind exists for his own sake, and not of others: for only then are the twisted governments rightened, namely democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies, which force mankind into slavery.

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative polītīa polītīae
    genitive polītīae polītīārum
    dative polītīae polītīīs
    accusative polītīam polītīās
    ablative polītīā polītīīs
    vocative polītīa polītīae

    Descendants

    Further reading

    • “politia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “politia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "politia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “politia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Romanian

    Noun

    politia

    1. definite nominative/accusative singular of politie
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