situate
See also: sítuate
English
Alternative forms
- scituate (hyper‐correct, obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin situātus, past participle of Medieval Latin situō (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪt͡ʃueɪt/
- Hyphenation: sit‧u‧ate
Verb
situate (third-person singular simple present situates, present participle situating, simple past and past participle situated)
- (transitive) To place on or into a physical location.
- The statue is situated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area situated behind the building.
- (transitive) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.
- The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.
Translations
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Adjective
situate (comparative more situate, superlative most situate)
- (now rare) Situated.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:, II.ii.3:
- Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
- (Can we date this quote by Milton?)
- Pleasure situate in hill and dale.
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- (heraldry) Situated; located.
- 2013, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide To Heraldry, →ISBN:
- The arms of the College of Surgeons in Endinburgh, I fancy, afford the only instance of what is presumably a corpse, the blazon being: "Azure, a man (human body) fesswise between a dexter hand having an eye on the palm issuing out of a cloud downward and a castle situate on a rock proper, within a bordure or charged with several instruments peculiar to the art (sic); on a canton of the first a saltire argent surmounted of a thistle vert, crowned of the third."
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Further reading
- situate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- situate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- situate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Italian
Verb
situate
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /si.tuˈaː.te/, [sɪ.tʊˈaː.tɛ]
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