politia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολῑτείᾱ (polīteíā, “citizenship; government; civil polity”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /po.liːˈtiː.a/, [pɔlʲiːˈt̪iːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.liˈti.a/, [poliˈt̪iːä]

polītīa f (genitive polītīae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) state, government, administration
   • 1313, Dante Alighieri, “Liber I [Book 1]”, in De monarchia [About monarchy]:

     Genus humanum solum imperante Monarcha, sui, et non alterius gratia, est: tunc enim solum Politiae diriguntur obliquae, democratiae scilicet, oligarchiae atque tyrannides, quae in servitute cogunt genus humanum.

     Only when the monarch rules, mankind exists for his own sake, and not of others: for only then are the twisted governments rightened, namely democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies, which force mankind into slavery.

First-declension noun.

• “politia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “politia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• politia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• politia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

politia

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of politie