sitis

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, destruction, decrease”), with the Proto-Indo-European cluster *dʰgʷʰ- metathesizing into pre-Italic *gʷʰdʰ-, yielding *kþ- and finally Latin s-. Cognates include Sanskrit क्षिति (kṣíti, “perishing, downfall”) and Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthisis, “decrease, emaciation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈsi.tis/

Noun

sitis (genitive sitis); f (uncountable), third declension

1. thirst

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	sitis	—1
genitive	sitis	—
dative	sitī	—
accusative	sitim	—
ablative	sitī	—
vocative	sitis	—

¹ sitis is declined in the singular only.

Descendants

Anglo-Norman: seid, seif Aromanian: seate Catalan: set Dalmatian: sait French: soif Friulian: sêt Italian: sete

Occitan: set Portuguese: sede Romanian: sete Romansch: said, set Sardinian: side, sidi Spanish: sed

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sum (“I am”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈsiː.tis/

Verb

sītis

1. second-person plural present active subjunctive of sum
   1. "may you be"
   2. "may you exist"

References

• Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Brill, 2008, page 568