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sitis

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See also: sitīs

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Pronunciation

Adjective

sitis

  1. masculine plural of siti

Noun

sitis

  1. plural of siti

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

Noun

sitis f sg (genitive sitis); third declension

  1. thirst
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.327–330:
      Inde, ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora,
      Et cantu quaerulae rumpent arbusta cicadae,
      Ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna jubebo
      currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam;
      […]
      • Translation by James B. Greenough, 1900
        When heaven's fourth hour draws on the thickening drought,
        And shrill cicalas pierce the brake with song,
        Then at the well-springs bid them, or deep pools,
        From troughs of holm-oak quaff the running wave:
        […]
Declension

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

More information singular, nominative ...
Derived terms
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, 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

Verb

sītis

  1. second-person plural present active subjunctive of sum
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Latvian

Participle

sitis (definite situšais)

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

Declension

More information masculine (vīriešu dzimte), feminine (sieviešu dzimte) ...

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