la

feminine

/si.te/

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Translation

city, walled town; housing estate

Word origin

From Latin civitas ('the body of citizens, the city'), from civis ('citizen'). The modern French sense of a social housing estate is a twentieth-century development.

Origin: Latin
Root: civitas
English cognates: city, civic, citizen

Grammar

Genderfeminine

Pluralcités

Examples

Lyon.

He spent his childhood on an estate near Lyon.

These towns are famous for their old walls.

The estates in the area are short of schools.

The young people on the estate set up a football club.

Cette .

This city is over two thousand years old.

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This word is part of lesson 51.