respublica

• rēs pūblica

From rēs (“thing”, “affair”) + pūblica (“public”). Literally meaning “public affair”.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reːsˈpuː.bli.ka/, [reːsˈpuː.blɪ.ka]

rēspūblica f (variously declined, genitive reīpūblicae); fifth declension, first declension

1. the state, nation (the sovereign polity)
2. a republic (a state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor)

Fifth declension noun combined with first declension adjective.

• ē rē pūblicā, ē rēpūblicā

• respublica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• respublica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• respublica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man who has held many offices: honoribus ac reipublicae muneribus perfunctus (De Or. 1. 45)