cité

Inherited from Old French citet, Latin cīvitās.

IPA^(key): /si.te/

cité f (plural cités)

1. (Troyen) city

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

 

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Inherited from Middle French cité, from Old French citet, from Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”).

• IPA^(key): /si.te/

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• Homophones: citer, citée, citées, cités, citez
• Hyphenation: ci‧te

cité f (plural cités)

1. city

   Synonym: ville

2. citizenship

   Synonym: citoyenneté

   obtenir la cité ― to obtain citizenship

3. a fortified city, city-state, or historic city centre specifically

   la Cité des Papes ― the city of popes (Avignon)

4. (historical, Canada) a municipality with city rather than town status
5. housing estate
6. complex of buildings or district set aside for a specific purpose; campus

• This word is usually used in historical, technical, or metaphorical senses, with the usual term for a town or city of any size being ville.

• → Dutch: cité
• → Turkish: site

cité (feminine citée, masculine plural cités, feminine plural citées)

1. past participle of citer

• “cité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French cité.

cité f (plural citez)

1. city

• French: cité

cité oblique singular, f (oblique plural citez, nominative singular cité, nominative plural citez)

1. Alternative form of citet

cité

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of citar