What is the latin name for civilization?

The Latin name for civilization is "Roman." Like the Greek-speakers before them, those who spoke Latin believed language and cultural origin defined what we would now call "civilization." In short, Latin-speakers believed that the only civilization in the world was Latin-speaking civilizations (that is, the Roman Empire). Everyone else was a barbarian (a word borrowed from Greek that literally means "those who speak bar-bar," that is, any non-Greek language which sounded to them like gibberish).





Latin-speakers would not have differentiated between "Roman" and "civilization." As far as they were concerned, being "civil" and "civilized" was a trait of the Roman Empire, not a defining category.

What is the latin name for civilization?
"The word itself comes from the Latin adjective civilis, a reference to a citizen. Citizens willingly bring themselves together in political, social, economic, and religious organizations -- they merge together, that is, in the interests of the larger community. Over time, the word civilization has come to imply something beyond organization -- it refers to a particular shared way of thinking about the world as well as a reflection on that world in art, literature, drama and a host of other cultural happenings."
Reply:Barbaria, barbaries..
Reply:The word "civilization" has two origins: (1) "civis" (Latin word for citizen or townsman), and (2), civilis (the adjective form of "civis"). In this sense, being "civilized" means being a citizen, who is governed by the law of his/her city, town or community. Civilization may also refer to the culture of a particular community.
Reply:civilizasion...