status

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin status.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsteɪt.əs/

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• (US) enPR: stătəs, IPA: /ˈstæt.əs/, /ˈsteɪt.əs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəs, -ætəs

Noun

status (plural statuses or (rare) stati)

1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

   Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.

2. Prestige or high standing.
   • 1957, Gladys Sellew and Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81

     The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.

3. A situation or state of affairs.

   What's the status of the investigation?

   New York is known for its status as a financial center.

4. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
   1. (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.

      He is a status Indian.

5. (Social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

   I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

Derived terms

• status symbol

Translations

a person’s position or standing relative to that of others

• Arabic: تَرْتِيب (ar) (tartīb), دَرَجَة (ar) (daraja), رُتْبَة (ar) (rutbah), مَرْتَبَة (ar) (martabah), مَنْزِلَة (ar) (manzilah), مَنْصِب (ar) (manSib)
• Armenian: կարգավիճակ (kargavič̣ak)
• Czech: postavení (cs), životní úroveň (cs)
• Dutch: status (nl)
• Estonian: seisund (et)
• German: Status (de) m
• Greek: υπόσταση (el) (ypóstasi) f, θέση (el) (thési) f
• Icelandic: staða (is) f
• Italian: stato (it) m

• Japanese: 地位 (ja) (chii), 身分 (ja) (mibun)
• Norwegian: status (no) m
• Persian: جایگاه (fa) (jaygah)
• Portuguese: estatuto (pt) m
• Romanian: statut (ro) n, poziție (ro) (a cuiva)
• Russian: положение (ru) (položénije) n, состояние (ru) (sostojánije) n, статус (ru) (státus) m
• Serbo-Croatian: статус (sh) (status) m
• Swedish: status (sv) c
• Turkish: statü (tr)
• Welsh: statws (cy) m

prestige or high standing

• Dutch: aanzien (nl)

situation or state of affairs

• Armenian: իրավիճակ (iravič̣ak)
• Czech: stav (cs)
• Dutch: status (nl)
• Estonian: olek (et), seisund (et)
• German: Stand (de) m, Status (de) m
• Greek: κατάσταση (el) (katástasi) f, υπόσταση (el) (ypóstasi) f, καθεστώς (el) (kathestós) n
• Italian: stato (it) m

• Japanese: 状態 (ja) (jōtai), 様子 (ja) (yōsu), 有様 (ja) (arisama)
• Portuguese: estado (pt) m
• Romanian: stare (ro) f, situație (ro)
• Russian: положение (ru) (položénije) n, состояние (ru) (sostojánije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: статус (sh) (status) m
• Turkish: durum (tr)
• Welsh: statws (cy) m

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: وضع اجتماعي (waɖʕ ijtimāʕi) m
• Esperanto: statuso
• French: statut m
• Hindi: स्तिथि (sthithi)

• Persian: وضعیت (vadiyet)
• Scottish Gaelic: inbhe f
• Spanish: estado m
• Telugu: స్థాయి (sthaayi) (1), ప్రతిష్ట (prathista)(2), స్థితి (sthithi) (3, 4)

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Noun

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1. status (all senses)

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Esperanto

Verb

status

1. conditional of stati

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Italian

Noun

status

1. [[Category: definitions needed|status]]

References

• Corriere Della Sera

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of stō, stare (“stand, remain”)

Participle

status m (feminine stata, neuter statum); first/second declension

1. fixed, set, having been set.
2. regular.

Inflection

Number	Singular				Plural
Case \ Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	status	stata	statum		statī	statae	stata
genitive	statī	statae	statī		statōrum	statārum	statōrum
dative	statō	statae	statō		statīs	statīs	statīs
accusative	statum	statam	statum		statōs	statās	stata
ablative	statō	statā	statō		statīs	statīs	statīs
vocative	state	stata	statum		statī	statae	stata

Noun

status (genitive statūs); m, fourth declension

1. state, status, condition
2. position, place
3. rank, status

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	status	statūs
genitive	statūs	statuum
dative	statuī	statibus
accusative	statum	statūs
ablative	statū	statibus
vocative	status	statūs

Descendants

Albanian: shtat Catalan: estat English: estate, state, status French: état (from Old French estat) Friulian: stât German: Status Irish: stad Italian: stato

Occitan: estat Portuguese: estado Romanian: stat Romansch: stadi, stedi, stat, status Russian: статус Sardinian: istadu, istatu, istau Spanish: estado, estatus

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Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status.

Noun

status m

1. status

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /stǎːtus/
• Hyphenation: sta‧tus

Noun

státus m (Cyrillic spelling ста́тус)

1. status, rank

Declension

    declension of status

	singular	plural
nominative	status	statusi
genitive	statusa	statusa
dative	statusu	statusima
accusative	status	statuse
vocative	statuse	statusi
locative	statusu	statusima
instrumental	statusom	statusima

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

status c

1. status, social standing, rank, situation

Declension

Declension of status

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	status	statusen	statusar	statusarna
genitive	status	statusens	statusars	statusarnas

Related terms

• statusjakt
• statussymbol