However, apart from the title, in modern translations of The Republic, alternative translations of Politeia are also used.
Cicero, among other Latin writers, translated Politeia as res publica
and it was in turn translated by Renaissance scholars as"republic"(or similar terms in various western European languages).
The term Politeia can be translated as form of government,
polity, or regime, and is therefore not always a word for a specific type of regime as the modern word republic is.