situs

See also: Situs

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situs (“position, site”). Doublet of site and sitio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪtəs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪtəs

Noun

situs (plural situses or situs)

1. (anatomy, botany) The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant.
2. (botany) The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged.
3. (law) The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes.
4. (real estate) The portion of an address comprising the street number and the street name, such as 3912 Park Drive.

Derived terms

• analysis situs
• common-situs picketing
• geometria situs
• situs ambiguous
• situs ambiguus
• situs inversus
• situs oppositus
• situs transversus

Related terms

• in situ
• site
• situate
• situation
• situational

Further reading

• “situs”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “situs”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “situs”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Suits, Tsuis, suist, suits

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin situs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsitʊs]
• Hyphenation: si‧tus

Noun

situs (plural situs-situs)

1. site:
   1. (archaeology) archaeological site

      Synonyms: tapak, tapakan

   2. (computing) website

Hyponyms

• situs warisan dunia
• situs web

Related terms

• situasi
• situasional

Further reading

• “situs”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Pronunciation

• situs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.tus]
• sitūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.tus]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱéyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der.

Proto-Italic *sinō

Latin sinō

Latin situs

Perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay, set down; usually let, suffer, permit”).

Participle

situs (feminine sita, neuter situm); first/second-declension participle

1. permitted, allowed, suffered, having been permitted
2. put, laid or set down, having been set down
3. (by extension) placed, set, lying, situated, positioned, sited
4. (by extension, of the dead) lying, laid, buried, interred
5. (by extension) built, founded
6. (figuratively) placed, situated, present, ready
7. (figuratively) dependent upon

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	situs	sita	situm		sitī	sitae	sita
genitive	sitī	sitae	sitī		sitōrum	sitārum	sitōrum
dative	sitō	sitae	sitō		sitīs
accusative	situm	sitam	situm		sitōs	sitās	sita
ablative	sitō	sitā	sitō		sitīs
vocative	site	sita	situm		sitī	sitae	sita

Derived terms

• siticen

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱéyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der.

Proto-Italic *sinō

Latin sinō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin situs

From sinō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

situs m (genitive sitūs); fourth declension

1. the manner of lying; the situation, position or site of something
2. a quarter of the world, region
3. (Late Latin) description

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	situs	sitūs
genitive	sitūs	situum
dative	situī	sitibus
accusative	situm	sitūs
ablative	sitū	sitibus
vocative	situs	sitūs

Derived terms

• situō

Descendants

• Catalan: siti
• → English: situs, in situ
• Old French: site
  • French: site
  • → Middle English: site
    • → English: site
• → Indonesian: situs (learned)
• Italian: sito
• Portuguese: sítio
• Spanish: sitio

Etymology 3

According to De Vaan, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰi-téw-s, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰey- (“to decline, perish”).

Noun

situs m (genitive sitūs); fourth declension

1. decay, rust, mould, mustiness, dust, dirt; soil
2. filthiness of the body
3. (figuratively) neglect, idleness, absence of use
4. (figuratively, of the mind) a rusting, moulding or wasting away, dullness, inactivity

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	situs	sitūs
genitive	sitūs	situum
dative	situī	sitibus
accusative	situm	sitūs
ablative	sitū	sitibus
vocative	situs	sitūs

Related terms

• sitis

Descendants

• Italian: sito

Further reading

• “sĭtus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sĭtus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “situs¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “situs²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sĭtus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "situs", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the situation of a place: situs loci
    
  • to be favourably situated: opportuno loco situm or positum esse
    
  • the city is very beautifully situated: urbs situ ad aspectum praeclara est
    
  • the city is situate on a bay: urbs in sinu sita est
    
  • here lies..: hic situs est...
    
  • to depend upon a thing: positum, situm esse in aliqua re
    
  • to be in a person's power: in manu, in potestate alicuius situm, positum esse
    
  • to give a brief exposition of the geography of Africa: Africae situm paucis exponere
    
  • (ambiguous) to suffer agonies of thirst: siti cruciari, premi
    
• situs in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “site”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.