statūs

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See also: status, Status, and státus

English

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Etymology

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From Latin statūs pl.

Noun

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statūs pl

  1. (rare) plural of status
    • 1991, John Lennard, But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English, page 21:
      The reflexivity is perhaps related to the epistemological-ontological duality which the comparison of lunulae and inverted commas establishes: that the mark both establishes different levels and statūs (plural) of meaning, and signals movement between those levels.
    • 2006, Hans J. Vermeer, Luhmann’s “social systems” theory, page 16:
      Analogically we who observe Luhmann’s theory have two statūs²².
      ²² The ū indicates plural: status (singular) vs. statūs (plural), and so likewise with other Latin words of the so-called u-declension, e.g. nexus vs. nexūs.
    • 2016, Epana Medagedara Thejan Jayaneetha Rajapakshe, Network Patterns Of Psychosocial Feelings Expressed On Social Media –Twitter (Bachelors Thesis, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka), page 16:
      11,598,369 Tweets with statūs (hash tags) named ‘love’, ‘happy’, ‘sad’, and ‘fun’ are extracted from 715,027 individuals (twitter users).

Usage notes

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Some people consider this form to be valid in Latin only, and use status as the plural form.

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