cive
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9.9
- noun
- Archaic
:
cebollino
- 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
16
2.6
A small herb with thin hollow leaves that adds a mild onion flavor to food
A small onion-like plant with thin hollow green leaves used to add mild onion flavor to food
A small onion-like herb with long green leaves that adds a mild onion taste 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.