# sito
## Amis
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 生徒 (seito, “student”).

### Noun

sito
* student

#### Synonyms

* mitiliday

## Hausa
### Etymology

Borrowed from English store.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sì.tó/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [sɪ̀.tó]

### Noun

sìtô m (plural sìtô-sìtô, possessed form sìtôn)
* storeroom

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsi.to/
* Rhymes: -ito
* Hyphenation: sì‧to

### Etymology 1

From Latin situs (“laid, placed”), perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”), from Proto-Indo-European *si-n-H-, n-infix of the root *sey(H)- (“to put”).

#### Adjective

sito (feminine sita, masculine plural siti, feminine plural site)
* (literary) situated, located, lying

### Etymology 2

From Latin situs (“position”), from a noun use of the perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”).

#### Noun

sito m (plural siti)
* site, specifically:
** (obsolete) location, position, situation, site
    Synonyms: position, posizione, situazione
** (literary) place, site, location
    Synonyms: luogo, posto
** (biology) region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place; site
** (Internet) website
    Synonyms: sito internet, sito web

### Etymology 3

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “The consensus is that situs (“mold”) is unrelated to the participle, and hence sinō, though.”
From Latin situs (“mold, filthiness”, literally “the state of having been left abandoned”), from a noun use of the perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”).

#### Noun

sito m (plural siti)
* (literary, regional) bad smell, stink
    Synonyms: puzza, puzzo, tanfo

### References

* ↑ sito$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* ↑ sito$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* ↑ sito$^3$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.

### Anagrams

* Isto, Tosi, isto-, osti, tosi

## Latin
### Participle

sitō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of situs

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀲𑀺𑀢𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* सितो (Devanagari script)
* সিতো (Bengali script)
* සිතො (Sinhalese script)
* သိတော or သိတေႃ (Burmese script)
* สิโต (Thai script)
* ᩈᩥᨲᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ສິໂຕ (Lao script)
* សិតោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄥𑄨𑄖𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

sito
* nominative singular masculine of sita (“white”)
* nominative singular masculine of sita (“bound”), which is past participle of sinoti (“to bind”)
* nominative singular masculine of sita (“clinging to”)
* nominative singular masculine of sita (“sharp”)

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sìto (“sieve”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *séiˀta, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁y-tom, from *seh₁- (“to impress, insert, sow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɕi.tɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -itɔ
* Syllabification: si‧to
* Homophone: Sito

### Noun

sito n (diminutive sitko)
* sieve
* (figurative) filter (method of eliminating unsuitable people or things)

#### Derived terms

* sitkowy
* sitny
* sitowy
* siciarz
* sitarz
* siteczko
* sitko
* sitnik

### Further reading

* sito in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* sito in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sito (“sieve”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sîto/
* Hyphenation: si‧to

#### Noun

sȉto n (Cyrillic spelling си̏то)
* sieve

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “sito”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

sito
* neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of sit

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sito.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsitɔ]

### Noun

sito n
* sieve

### Further reading

* “sito”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situs, perfect passive participle of sinō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsito/ [ˈsi.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ito
* Syllabification: si‧to

### Adjective

sito (feminine sita, masculine plural sitos, feminine plural sitas)
* (formal) located, situated

### Further reading

* “sito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* tíos, tosí

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /s̪i.ˈt̪o/

### Adverb

sito
* (interrogative) from where, whence?
    naai sito? ― from where did you depart?
* (interrogative) to where, whereto?
    ni sito? ― where are you going?

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as sitó)