# situs
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsaɪtəs/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪtəs

### Noun

situs (plural situses)
* The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant.
* The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged.
* (law) The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes.
* (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: [ˈsitʊs]
* Hyphenation: si‧tus

### Noun

situs (uncountable)
* site:
** (archaeology) archaeological site.
    Synonyms: tapak, tapakan
** (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: /ˈsi.tus/, [ˈs̠ɪt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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
* permitted, allowed, suffered, having been permitted
* put, laid or set down, having been set down
* (by extension) placed, set, lying, situated, positioned, sited
* (by extension, of the dead) lying, laid, buried, interred
* (by extension) built, founded
* (figuratively) placed, situated, present, ready
* (figuratively) dependent upon

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

##### Derived terms

* siticen

#### Noun

situs m (genitive sitūs); fourth declension
* The manner of lying; the situation, position or site of something.
* A quarter of the world, region.
* (Late Latin) description

##### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

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

##### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

##### Related terms

* sitis

##### Descendants

* Italian: sito

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “situs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 568
* “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, 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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “site”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.