"cité" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /si.te/ Audio: Fr-cité.ogg Forms: cités [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French cité, from Old French citet, from Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|cité|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French cité, {{inh+|fr|frm|cité}} Inherited from Middle French cité, {{inh|fr|fro|citet}} Old French citet, {{inh|fr|LL.|civitas|cīvitātem|t=city}} Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} cité f (plural cités)
  1. city Tags: feminine Synonyms: ville
    Sense id: en-cité-fr-noun-EaYsI0Er
  2. citizenship Tags: feminine Synonyms: citoyenneté
    Sense id: en-cité-fr-noun-F1fS-5Yo Categories (other): French terms with collocations
  3. a fortified city, city-state, or historic city centre specifically Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cité-fr-noun-SSb-hsRO
  4. (historical, Canada) a municipality with city rather than town status Tags: Canada, feminine, historical
    Sense id: en-cité-fr-noun-yXIpKj0C Categories (other): Canadian French
  5. housing estate Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cité-fr-noun-ncrHrQOe Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 0 7 12 4 44 8 25
  6. complex of buildings or district set aside for a specific purpose; campus Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cité-fr-noun-Aex9ie1z
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: avoir droit de cité, cité universitaire, citoyen, téci Related terms: citadelle, citadin, civil

Verb

IPA: /si.te/ Audio: Fr-cité.ogg Forms: citée [feminine], cités [masculine, plural], citées [feminine, plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French cité, from Old French citet, from Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|cité|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French cité, {{inh+|fr|frm|cité}} Inherited from Middle French cité, {{inh|fr|fro|citet}} Old French citet, {{inh|fr|LL.|civitas|cīvitātem|t=city}} Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”) Head templates: {{fr-past participle}} cité (feminine citée, masculine plural cités, feminine plural citées)
  1. past participle of citer Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: citer Derived forms: sus-cité
    Sense id: en-cité-fr-verb-Kt74TOyh

Inflected forms

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    {
      "homophone": "citez"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-cité.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/Fr-cit%C3%A9.ogg/Fr-cit%C3%A9.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Fr-cit%C3%A9.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "cité"
  ],
  "word": "cité"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.