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== Etymology ==

The word ''city'' comes from the Latin word ''citadel'' i.e. fortress. The related (maybe) ''[[civilization]]'' come from the [[Latin]] root {{lang|la|[[wikt:civitas|civitas]]}}, originally meaning 'citizenship' or 'community member' and eventually coming to correspond with {{lang|la|[[wikt:urbs|urbs]]}}, meaning 'city' in a more physical sense.<ref name="OED">"city, n.", ''Oxford English Dictionary'', June 2014.</ref> The Roman ''civitas'' was closely linked with the Greek {{lang|el-latn|[[polis]]}}—another common root appearing in English words such as ''[[metropolis]]''.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Jianping | first=Yi | title="Civilization" and "State": An Etymological Perspective | journal=Social Sciences in China | volume=33 | issue=2 | date=2012 | issn=0252-9203 | doi=10.1080/02529203.2012.677292 | pages=181–197}}</ref>

In [[toponymic]] terminology, names of individual cities and towns are called ''astionyms'' (from [[Ancient Greek]] {{lang|grc-Grek|ἄστυ|italic=no}} 'city or town' and {{lang|grc-Grek|ὄνομα|italic=no}} 'name').{{sfn|Room|1996|p=13}}