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1 Pronunciation 2 Etymology 3 Noun 3.1 Translations 4 See also

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsIti/
• SAMPA: /"sIti/

Etymology

From French cité which comes from the Latin civitas meaning "an organized community" a "a civilized place".

Noun

city (plural: cities)

1. 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

• Basque: hiri
• Breton: keoded f -où pl, kêr f -ioù pl
• Catalan: ciutat f
• Chinese: 城市
• Dutch: stad f
• Esperanto: urbo
• French: ville f
• German: Stadt f
• Greek: (poli)
• 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
• Romanica: citate f, urbe f
• Spanish: ciudad f, urbe f
• Tagalog: lungsod, syudad
• Volapük: zif

See also

• metropolis
• megalopolis