situs

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See also: Situs

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situs (position, site)

Pronunciation

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Noun

situs (plural situses)

  1. The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant.
  2. 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 street number and street name of an address such as "3912 Park Drive". It does not include the city, county, country, etc.

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Anagrams


Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of sinō (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
  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.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative situs sita situm sitī sitae sita
Genitive sitī sitae sitī sitōrum sitārum sitōrum
Dative sitō sitō sitīs
Accusative situm sitam situm sitōs sitās sita
Ablative sitō sitā sitō sitīs
Vocative site sita situm sitī sitae sita
Derived terms

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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative situs sitūs
Genitive sitūs situum
Dative situī sitibus
Accusative situm sitūs
Ablative sitū sitibus
Vocative situs sitūs
Descendants
  • English: site, situs, in situ
  • French: site
  • Italian: sito

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Etymology 2

According to de Vaan, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰi-téw-s, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰey- (to decline, perish).[1]

Noun

situs m (genitive sitūs); fourth declension

  1. 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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative situs sitūs
Genitive sitūs situum
Dative situī sitibus
Accusative situm sitūs
Ablative sitū sitibus
Vocative situs sitūs
Descendants

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “situs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 568
  • situs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • situs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • situs in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • situs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • site”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.