cive
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9.9
- noun
- Archaic
- In Italian cooking, cives are often used to season dishes like pasta.
Examples
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It is a self-consistent and self-authenticating world in which law (lex) serves as a language of civil intercourse among citizens (cives) in accordance with a set of public conditions (respublica).
Academic text (1991) -
But civil association is modally distinct from this: cives accept not a set of common aims but a commonly recognized system of rules.
Academic text (1991) -
I added chopped cives to the salad for extra flavor.
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For the soup, she garnished it with fresh cives to enhance the taste.
Synonyms
13
2.0
A small onion-like herb with long green leaves that adds a mild onion taste to food
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2.6
A small herb with thin hollow leaves that adds a mild onion flavor to food
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7.4
A small onion-like plant with thin hollow green leaves used to add mild onion flavor to food
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cive comes from old French cive and the Latin cepa, both meaning 'onion'. So remember cive as a small onion-like plant, like the common chive, often used to add flavor to food.