sitis

See also: sitīs

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *(k)sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, destruction, decrease”), from *dʰgʷʰey- (“to decline, perish”), with the Proto-Indo-European cluster *dʰgʷʰ- metathesizing into pre-Italic *gʷʰdʰ-, yielding *kts- and finally Latin s-. Cognates include Sanskrit क्षिति (kṣíti, “perishing, downfall”) and Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “decrease, emaciation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tis/, [ˈs̠ɪt̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tis/, [ˈsiːt̪is]

Noun

sitis f sg (genitive sitis); third declension

1. thirst

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	sitis
Genitive	sitis
Dative	sitī
Accusative	sitim
Ablative	sitī
Vocative	sitis

Derived terms

• sitiō

Related terms

• situs

Descendants

• Aromanian: seati
• Aragonese: set, sete
• Asturian: sede
• Catalan: set
• Dalmatian: sait
• Franco-Provençal: sêf
• French: soif
• Friulian: sêt
• Galician: sede
• Italian: sete
• Leonese: sede
• Occitan: set
• Piedmontese: sej, sèj
• Portuguese: sede
• Romanian: sete
• Romansch: said, set
• Sardinian: sidi(s), sidi(g)u
• Sicilian: siti
• Spanish: sed
• Venetan: sée, sef
• Walloon: soe

References

• “sitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sitis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem, sitim explere
    
  • to become thirsty: sitim colligere
    
  • to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
    
  • (ambiguous) to suffer agonies of thirst: siti cruciari, premi
    
  • (ambiguous) to be able to endure hunger and thirst: famis et sitis patientem esse
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 568

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sum (“I am”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.tis/, [ˈs̠iːt̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tis/, [ˈsiːt̪is]

Verb

sītis

1. second-person plural present active subjunctive of sum

Latvian

Participle

sitis (definite situšais)

1. having hit, having struck, having beaten; indefinite past active participle of sist

Declension

indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of sitis

	masculine (vīriešu dzimte)			feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)		singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	sitis	situši		situsi	situšas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	situšu	situšus		situšu	situšas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	situša	situšu		situšas	situšu
dative (datīvs)	situšam	situšiem		situšai	situšām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	situšu	situšiem		situšu	situšām
locative (lokatīvs)	situšā	situšos		situšā	situšās
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	—		—	—