situs
See also: Situs
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsaɪtəs/
Noun
situs (plural situses)
- The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant.
- The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged.
- (law) The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes.
- (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.
Related terms
Further reading
- situs in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- situs in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- situs at OneLook Dictionary Search
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.tus/, [ˈsɪ.tʊs]
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of sinō (“put, lay, set down; usually let, suffer, permit”).
Participle
situs m (feminine sita, neuter situm); first/second declension
- permitted, allowed, suffered, having been permitted
- put, laid or set down, having been set down
- (by extension) placed, set, lying, situated, positioned
- (by extension, of the dead) lying, laid, buried, interred
- (by extension) built, founded
- (figuratively) placed, situated, present, ready
- (figuratively) dependent upon
Declension
First/second declension.
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 | sitae | sitō | sitīs | sitīs | sitīs | |
Accusative | situm | sitam | situm | sitōs | sitās | sita | |
Ablative | sitō | sitā | sitō | sitīs | sitīs | sitīs | |
Vocative | site | sita | situm | sitī | sitae | sita |
Derived terms
Noun
situs m (genitive sitūs); fourth declension
- The manner of lying; the situation, position or site of something.
- A quarter of the world, region.
- (Late Latin) description
Declension
Fourth declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | situs | sitūs |
Genitive | sitūs | situum |
Dative | situī | sitibus |
Accusative | situm | sitūs |
Ablative | sitū | sitibus |
Vocative | situs | sitūs |
Descendants
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
Declension
Fourth declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | situs | sitūs |
Genitive | sitūs | situum |
Dative | situī | sitibus |
Accusative | situm | sitūs |
Ablative | sitū | sitibus |
Vocative | situs | sitūs |
Descendants
- Italian: sito
References
- 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, 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, 1883–1887)
- situs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
- the situation of a place: situs loci
- situs in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- site in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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