Translation
civilisation
Word origin
From French civilisation, built on Latin civilis ('of a citizen'), from civis ('citizen'). The idea underneath is city-dwelling: a civilisation is what happens when people live together in one.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- civilis
- English cognates
- civilisation, civil, citizen, civic
Examples
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The ancient civilisation left behind great temples.
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Every civilisation has its own customs.
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The war destroyed an entire civilisation.
A civilisation as a whole thing, the settled way of life of a people over a long stretch of time. Kulturo is the narrower word for the art, habits and manners inside one, and the two are not swappable: is the whole society, is what it made and thought.
Do not try to cut this into civil- plus -iz-. Esperanto has no official -iz- suffix, and even if you allow the technical one that engineers use, it means "to equip with", which gets you nowhere near a civilisation. The root here is -, borrowed whole from the French noun. The verb civilizi and the adjective civiliza sit on that same root; the separate root civil- gives civila, "civil" in the sense of civilian or non-military, and it is a different word with a different meaning.
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