situs

See also: Situs

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situs (“position, site”). Doublet of site and sitio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪtəs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪtəs

Noun

situs (plural situses)

1. The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant.
2. The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged.
3. (law) The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes.
4. (real estate) The portion of an address comprising street number and street name, such as "3912 Park Drive".

Derived terms

• analysis situs
• common-situs picketing
• situs ambiguus
• situs inversus
• situs oppositus
• situs transversus

Related terms

• in situ
• site
• situate
• situation
• situational

Further reading

• “situs”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “situs”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “situs”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Suits, Tsuis, suist, suits

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin situs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsitʊs]
• Hyphenation: si‧tus

Noun

situs (first-person possessive situsku, second-person possessive situsmu, third-person possessive situsnya)

1. site:
   1. (archaeology) archaeological site.

      Synonyms: tapak, tapakan

   2. (computing) website

Hyponyms

• situs warisan dunia
• situs web

 

Related terms

• situasi
• situasional

 

Further reading

• “situs” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tus/, [ˈs̠ɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tus/, [ˈsiːt̪us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of sinō (“put, lay, set down; usually let, suffer, permit”).

Participle

situs (feminine sita, neuter situm); first/second-declension participle

1. permitted, allowed, suffered, having been permitted
2. put, laid or set down, having been set down
3. (by extension) placed, set, lying, situated, positioned, sited
4. (by extension, of the dead) lying, laid, buried, interred
5. (by extension) built, founded
6. (figuratively) placed, situated, present, ready
7. (figuratively) dependent upon

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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		sitō		sitīs
Accusative	situm	sitam	situm		sitōs	sitās	sita
Ablative	sitō	sitā	sitō		sitīs
Vocative	site	sita	situm		sitī	sitae	sita

Derived terms

• siticen

Noun

situs m (genitive sitūs); fourth declension

1. The manner of lying; the situation, position or site of something.
2. A quarter of the world, region.
3. (Late Latin) description

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	situs	sitūs
Genitive	sitūs	situum
Dative	situī	sitibus
Accusative	situm	sitūs
Ablative	sitū	sitibus
Vocative	situs	sitūs

Descendants

• Catalan: siti
• → English: situs, in situ
• Old French: site
  • French: site
  • → Middle English: site
    • → English: site
• → Indonesian: situs (learned)
• Italian: sito
• Portuguese: sítio
• Spanish: sitio

Etymology 2

According to de Vaan, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰi-téw-s, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰey- (“to decline, perish”).

Noun

situs m (genitive sitūs); fourth declension

2. Decay, rust, mould, mustiness, dust, dirt; soil.
3. Filthiness of the body.
4. (figuratively) Neglect, idleness, absence of use.
5. (figuratively, of the mind) A rusting, moulding or wasting away, dullness, inactivity.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	situs	sitūs
Genitive	sitūs	situum
Dative	situī	sitibus
Accusative	situm	sitūs
Ablative	sitū	sitibus
Vocative	situs	sitūs

Related terms

• sitis

Descendants

• Italian: sito

References

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• situs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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
    
• situs in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “site”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.