cité

From Middle French cité, from Old French cité, citet, from Latin cīvitātem, accusative of civītās (“a union of citizens, a citizenry”).

• IPA^(key): /si.te/

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• Homophones: citer, citée, citées, cités, citez

cité f (plural cités)

1. city

   Synonym: ville

2. a fortified city, city-state, or historic city centre specifically

   la Cité des Papes ― the city of popes (Avignon)

3. (historical, Canada) a municipality with city rather than town status
4. housing estate
5. complex of buildings or district set aside for a specific purpose; campus

Cité is usually used in historical, technical, or metaphorical senses, with the usual term for a town or city of any size being ville.

• avoir droit de cité
• cité universitaire
• citoyen
• téci

• citadelle
• citadin
• civil

• → Dutch: cité
• → Turkish: site

cité (feminine citée, masculine plural cités, feminine plural citées)

1. past participle of citer

• sus-cité

• “cité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French cité.

cité f (plural citez)

1. city

• French: cité

cité f (oblique plural citez, nominative singular cité, nominative plural citez)

1. Alternative form of citet

cité

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of citar