cité

From Middle French cité, from Old French cité, citet, from Latin cīvitātem, accusative of civītās (“a union of citizens, a citizenry”)

• IPA^(key): /si.te/

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• Homophones: citer, citée, citées, cités, citez

cité f (plural cités)

1. city

   Synonym: ville

2. housing estate

• citoyen
• téci

• citadelle
• citadin
• civil

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

1. past participle of citer

• “cité” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French cité.

cité f (plural citez)

1. city

• French: cité

• citee
• citet (chiefly 11th and 12th centuries)
• ciutat (10th century)

• IPA^(key): /t͡siˈte/

From Latin civītātem, accusative of cīvitās (“a union of citizens, a citizenry”)

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

1. city

• English: city (borrowed)
• Middle French: cité
  • French: cité

cité

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of citar.