Etymology of the English word policing
the English word
policingderived from the English word
policederived from the French word
policederived from the Old French word
policiederived from the Late Latin word
politiaderived from the Greek word
politeia, πολιτεία (citizenship; concretely, a community)
derived from the Greek word
polites, πολίτης (a townsman)
derived from the Greek word
polis, πόλις (a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size))
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*pelə-Usage
Word found in Modern English
