stateless

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s

Proto-Italic *status

Latin statuslbor.

Old French estatbor.

Middle English stat

English state

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.

Proto-Germanic *leusaną

Proto-Germanic *lausaz

Proto-Germanic *-lausaz

Proto-West Germanic *-laus

Old English -lēas

Middle English -les

English -less

English stateless

From state + -less.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

stateless (not comparable)

1. (computer science) Of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions.

   A stateless server treats each request independently.

2. (dated) Without state or pomp.
3. (law) Without a state or nationality; not subject to any state.

   UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 11 March 2023, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

   • 2021 December 15, Geneva Sands, “US promises to define ‘statelessness,’ a first for the federal government”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 4 November 2022:

     The department believes making changes will help stateless people get better access to legal immigration status and benefits. Typically, people around the world who are stateless have challenges including an inability to get jobs or government services and difficulty getting travel documents, a DHS official told CNN.

4. (philosophy, politics) Neither believing in nor supporting the idea of nations.

Synonyms

• citizenshipless
• countryless
• nationless

Antonyms

• (computer science) stateful

Derived terms

• stateless capitalism
• statelessly
• statelessness
• stateless person

Translations

(computer science) without remembering state

• Catalan: apàtrida
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無狀態 / 无状态 (wúzhuàngtài)

• Czech: bezstavový m
• Finnish: tilaton (fi)
• German: zustandlos
• Greek: ακαταστασικός (el) (akatastasikós)
• Turkish: durumsuz

(law) without a state or nationality

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: vətəndaşlığı olmayan
• Basque: herrigabe, aberrigabe
• Belarusian: без грамадзянства (bjez hramadzjanstva), апатры́д (apatrýd)
• Bengali: রাষ্ট্রহীনতা (raśṭrohinota)
• Bulgarian: без гражданство (bez graždanstvo), апатри́д (apatríd)
• Carpathian Rusyn: апатри́д (apatrýd)
• Catalan: apàtrida
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無國籍 / 无国籍 (wúguójí)

• Czech: apatrida
• Danish: statsløs (da)
• Dutch: staatloos (nl), stateloos (nl)
• Esperanto: senŝtateco
• Finnish: valtioton, kansalaisuudeton
• French: apatride (fr)
• Georgian: მოქალაქეობის არმქონე (mokalakeobis armkone), მოქალაქეობის არმქონე პირი (mokalakeobis armkone ṗiri), აპატრიდი (ka) (aṗaṭridi)
• German: heimatlos (de), staatenlos (de)
• Greek: ακρατικός (akratikós), άπατρις (el) (ápatris)
• Hindi: नागरिकताहीन (nāgriktāhīn)
• Hungarian: hontalan (hu)
• Ido: sennacionano, apatrido
• Indonesian: tak bernegara
• Irish: gan stát
• Italian: apolide (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statsløs

  Nynorsk: statslaus

• Polish: bezpaństwowy (pl), bezpaństwowiec (pl), apatryda (pl)
• Portuguese: apátrida (pt)
• Romanian: apatrid (ro)
• Russian: не име́ющий гражда́нства (ne iméjuščij graždánstva), без гражда́нства (bez graždánstva), апатри́д (ru) m (apatríd)
• Spanish: apátrida (es)
• Swedish: statslös (sv)
• Tajik: бешаҳрвандӣ (bešahrvandi)
• Turkish: haymatlos (tr), tabiyetsiz, uyruksuz (tr), vatansız (tr), yurtsuz (tr)
• Ukrainian: без громадя́нства (bez hromadjánstva), апатри́д (apatrýd)

Anagrams

• tasteless