How to pronounce“cives”in English
IPA/sɪvɛs/
Syllablesci·ves
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This was because they understood their most wrenching conflicts in definitively political terms, as conflicts among citizens.
The Latin word for citizens is "cives." C-I-V-E-S. The root from which we get the word "civil" as well as "civility," "civilization," and "civilian,"
and they saw these conflicts among citizens-- among "cives" and civil conflicts as rising to the level of war, rather than being riots, rebellions, or seditions,
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