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civitatis

civitatis is a Latin form of civitas, meaning “state, citizenship; community”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 765 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.3.5: Perfacile factu esse illis probat conata perficere, propterea quod ipse suae civitatis imperium obtenturus esset:

Suetonius, Divus Julius 29.1: Commotus his Caesar ac iudicans, quod saepe ex eo auditum ferunt, difficilius se principem ciuitatis a primo ordine in secundum quam ex secundo in nouissimum detrudi, summa ope restitit, partim per intercessore …

Seneca the Younger, De Clementia 1.22.2: Civitatis autem mores magis corrigit parcitas animadversionum; facit enim consuetudinem peccandi multitudo peccantium, et minus gravis nota est, quam turba damnationum levat, et severitas, quod maximum remedium habet, adsiduitate amittit auctoritatem.

All forms of civitas (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.