civil
/θiˈbil/ · B1 · adj
civil (all senses)
🏛️ Same word as English civil, from Latin civis = citizen; stress the end: ci-VIL
A true cognate: spelling and meaning match English in every sense (civil rights, civil war, civil engineer, polite). Only the sound changes: c is th in Spain (s in Latin America), v sounds like b, and the stress falls on the last syllable.