# situate
## 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

* (verb) IPA: /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.eɪt/, /ˈsɪt.ju.eɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (adjective) IPA: /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.ət/, /ˈsɪt.ju.ət/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* 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, figurative) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.
    The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.
** 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather have situated Hobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project.
** 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 7:In the following sections, I situate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts.

#### Related terms

* site
* situation

#### Translations

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### Adjective

situate (comparative more situate, superlative most situate)
* (now rare) Situated.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, II.ii.3:
    Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
** 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Pleasure situate in hill and dale.
** 1938, letter from South African Secretary for Native Affairs to N L Henwood:
    […] the farm Kafferskraal No. 62 is not situate within a released area and its acquisition by the South African Native Trust is consequently not contemplated.
* (heraldry) Situated; located.
** 1917, Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, page 218:[...] graunted unto ye sayd Arthure Herrys for his Creast on the heaulme a Stagges head losengy couppe siluer & gules horned gold situate on a wreathe gold & azure mantelled gules doubled siluer which togither w ye sayd ancient Armes viz […] In the yere of our Lord God MCCCCClxxviij […]
** 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."

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* usitate

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

situate
* feminine plural of situato

#### Participle

situate f pl
* feminine plural of situato

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

situate
* inflection of situare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Anagrams

* autiste, usitate

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /si.tuˈaː.te/, [s̠ɪt̪uˈäːt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /si.tuˈa.te/, [sit̪uˈäːt̪e]

### Verb

situāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of situō

## Spanish
### Verb

situate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of situar combined with te