Latin

Alternative forms

• rēs pūblica

Noun

rēspūblica f ‎(genitive reīpūblicae); first declension

1. the state, nation (the sovereign polity)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1

     Cn. Fuluius Centumalus P. Sulpicius Galba consules cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, senatu in Capitolium uocato, de re publica, de administratione belli, de prouinciis exercitibusque patres consuluerunt.

     When the consuls Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus and Publius Sulpicius Galba took up the magistracy on the Ides of March, they summoned the senate to the Capitoline Hill and consulted the senators on issues regarding the state, the handling of the war, the provinces and the armies.

2. a republic (a state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor)

Inflection

Fifth declension noun combine with first declension adjective.

Derived terms

• e re publica/e republica

Descendants

References

• respublica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• RESPUBLICA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “respublica”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man who has held many offices: honoribus ac reipublicae muneribus perfunctus (De Or. 1. 45)