sito

See also: SITO, síto, sito-, šito, and шито

Amis

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 生徒 (seito, “student”).

Noun

sito

1. student

Synonyms

• mitiliday

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English store.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sì.tó/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sɪ̀.tó]

Noun

sìtô m (plural sìtô-sìtô, possessed form sìtôn)

1. storeroom

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.to/
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: sì‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin situs (“laid, placed”), perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”), from Proto-Indo-European *si-n-H-, n-infix of the root *sey(H)- (“to put”).

Adjective

sito (feminine sita, masculine plural siti, feminine plural site)

1. (literary) situated, located, lying

Etymology 2

From Latin situs (“position”), from a noun use of the perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”).

Noun

sito m (plural siti)

1. site, specifically:
   1. (obsolete) location, position, situation, site

      Synonyms: position, posizione, situazione

   2. (literary) place, site, location

      Synonyms: luogo, posto

   3. (biology) region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place; site
   4. (Internet) website

      Synonyms: sito internet, sito web

Etymology 3

From Latin situs (“mold, filthiness”, literally “the state of having been left abandoned”), from a noun use of the perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”).

Noun

sito m (plural siti)

1. (literary, regional) bad smell, stink

   Synonyms: puzza, puzzo, tanfo

Anagrams

• Isto, Tosi, isto-, osti, tosi

Latin

Participle

sitō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of situs

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀲𑀺𑀢𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• सितो (Devanagari script)
• সিতো (Bengali script)
• සිතො (Sinhalese script)
• သိတော or သိတေႃ (Burmese script)
• สิโต (Thai script)
• ᩈᩥᨲᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ສິໂຕ (Lao script)
• សិតោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄨𑄖𑄮 (Chakma script)

Adjective

sito

1. nominative singular masculine of sita (“white”)
2. nominative singular masculine of sita (“bound”), which is past participle of sinoti (“to bind”)
3. nominative singular masculine of sita (“clinging to”)
4. nominative singular masculine of sita (“sharp”)

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sìto (“sieve”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *séiˀta, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁y-tom, from *seh₁- (“to impress, insert, sow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕi.tɔ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -itɔ
• Syllabification: si‧to

Noun

sito n (diminutive sitko)

1. sieve
2. (figurative) filter (method of eliminating unsuitable people or things)

Declension

Declension of sito

	singular	plural
nominative	sito	sita
genitive	sita	sit
dative	situ	sitom
accusative	sito	sita
instrumental	sitem	sitami
locative	sicie	sitach
vocative	sito	sita

Derived terms

adjectives

• sitkowy
• sitny
• sitowy

 

nouns

• siciarz
• sitarz
• siteczko
• sitko
• sitnik

 

Further reading

• sito in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sito in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sito (“sieve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sîto/
• Hyphenation: si‧to

Noun

sȉto n (Cyrillic spelling си̏то)

1. sieve

Declension

Declension of sito

	singular	plural
nominative	sȉto	sȉta
genitive	sȉta	sȋtā
dative	situ	sitima
accusative	sito	sita
vocative	sito	sita
locative	situ	sitima
instrumental	sitom	sitima

Further reading

• “sito” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

sito

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of sit

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsitɔ]

Noun

sito n

1. sieve

Further reading

• “sito”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situs, perfect passive participle of sinō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsito/ [ˈsi.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: si‧to

Adjective

sito (feminine sita, masculine plural sitos, feminine plural sitas)

1. (formal) located, situated

Further reading

• “sito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• tíos, tosí

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̪i.ˈt̪o/

Adverb

sito

1. (interrogative) from where, whence?

   naai sito? ― from where did you depart?

2. (interrogative) to where, whereto?

   ni sito? ― where are you going?

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as sitó)