status

From Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪt.əs/

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• (US, Canada, General Australian) enPR: stătəs, IPA^(key): /ˈstæt.əs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəs, -ætəs

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)

1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

   Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.

2. Prestige or high standing.
   • 1957, Gladys Sellew and Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81

     The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.

3. A situation or state of affairs.

   What's the status of the investigation?

   New York is known for its status as a financial center.

   • 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:

     If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

4. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
   1. (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.

      He is a status Indian.

5. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

   I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

6. (medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

• status quo
• status symbol

• "status" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 299.

• suttas

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

Latin sto

• IPA^(key): /status/

status m, inanimate

1. status

• status quo

• status in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• status in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin status.

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• Hyphenation: sta‧tus

status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)

1. status (all senses)
2. medical file

status

1. conditional of stati

Borrowed from Latin status.

status

1. status (person's position or standing; high standing)

• tassut

status m (invariable)

1. status (position in society)

• Corriere Della Sera

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tus/, [ˈsta.tʊs]

Perfect passive participle of sistō (“I cause to stand, set, place”).

status m (feminine stata, neuter statum); first/second declension

1. fixed, set, having been set.
2. regular.

First/second declension.

status m (genitive statūs); fourth declension

1. state, status, condition
2. position, place
3. rank, status
4. (Medieval Latin) state, a political division retaining a notable degree of autonomy.

   • Statūs Ūnītī Mexicāni

     United Mexican States, a Latinization of the official name of Mexico

Fourth declension.

• statuō

• status in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• status in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• status in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
    
  • to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: de statu suo or mentis deici (Att. 16. 15)
    
  • to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem gradu movere, depellere or de gradu (statu) deicere
    
  • (ambiguous) my position is considerably improved; my prospects are brighter: meliorem in statum redigor
    
  • (ambiguous) to restore a man to his former position: aliquem in antiquum statum, in pristinum restituere
    
  • (ambiguous) a periodically recurring (annual) sacrifice: sacrificium statum (solemne) (Tusc. 1. 47. 113)
    
  • (ambiguous) to restore the ancient constitution: rem publicam in pristinum statum restituere
    
  • (ambiguous) to endanger the existence of the state: statum rei publicae convellere
    

• IPA^(key): /staˈtus/

statùs m (feminine statì) stress pattern 4

1. steep, precipitous

   status kalnas - a steep mountain

(Adjectives)

• stačias

From Latin status

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statuser, definite plural statusene)

1. status

• bystatus
• statussymbol

• “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin status

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statusar, definite plural statusane)

1. status

• bystatus
• statussymbol

• “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

status m (plural status)

1. status; standing (a person’s importance relative to others)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:status.

Borrowed from Latin status.

status m

1. status

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi

• IPA^(key): /stǎːtus/
• Hyphenation: sta‧tus

státus m (Cyrillic spelling ста́тус)

1. status, rank

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

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status c

1. status, social standing, rank, situation

• statusjakt
• statussymbol