statuo

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staˈtuo/

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• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation: sta‧tu‧o

Noun

statuo (accusative singular statuon, plural statuoj, accusative plural statuojn)

1. statue

Derived terms

• statua (“of or related to statues”)
• statuarto (“art of sculpting statues”)
• statueto (“statuette”)

Latin

Etymology

From status (“position”). Given Umbrian 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌕𐌀 (statita, past part. acc. pl. n.), one can even reconstruct Proto-Italic *statuō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsta.tu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstaː.tu.o]

Verb

statuō (present infinitive statuere, perfect active statuī, supine statūtum); third conjugation

1. to put up (something)
2. to stand (something) in an upright position
3. to establish, determine, fix (the form or character of)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:

     Huic generi militum senatus eundem, quem Cannensibus, finem statuerat militiae.

     For this class of soldier the senate had established a limit in duration to their military service, which was the same as the men at Cannae.

4. to erect
5. to hold up, stop, end
6. to decide, make up (one’s mind)
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.9:

     […] statuistī quō quemque proficīscī placēret, […] .

     […] you decided where it would be appropriate for each one to depart, […] .

Conjugation

   Conjugation of statuō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	statuō		statuis		statuit		statuimus		statuitis		statuunt
	imperfect	statuēbam		statuēbās		statuēbat		statuēbāmus		statuēbātis		statuēbant
	future	statuam		statuēs		statuet		statuēmus		statuētis		statuent
	perfect	statuī		statuistī		statuit		statuimus		statuistis		statuērunt, statuēre
	pluperfect	statueram		statuerās		statuerat		statuerāmus		statuerātis		statuerant
	future perfect	statuerō		statueris		statuerit		statuerimus		statueritis		statuerint
passive	present	statuor		statueris, statuere		statuitur		statuimur		statuiminī		statuuntur
	imperfect	statuēbar		statuēbāris, statuēbāre		statuēbātur		statuēbāmur		statuēbāminī		statuēbantur
	future	statuar		statuēris, statuēre		statuētur		statuēmur		statuēminī		statuentur
	perfect	statūtus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	statūtus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	statūtus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	statuam		statuās		statuat		statuāmus		statuātis		statuant
	imperfect	statuerem		statuerēs		statueret		statuerēmus		statuerētis		statuerent
	perfect	statuerim		statuerīs		statuerit		statuerīmus		statuerītis		statuerint
	pluperfect	statuissem		statuissēs		statuisset		statuissēmus		statuissētis		statuissent
passive	present	statuar		statuāris, statuāre		statuātur		statuāmur		statuāminī		statuantur
	imperfect	statuerer		statuerēris, statuerēre		statuerētur		statuerēmur		statuerēminī		statuerentur
	perfect	statūtus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	statūtus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		statue		—		—		statuite		—
	future	—		statuitō		statuitō		—		statuitōte		statuuntō
passive	present	—		statuere		—		—		statuiminī		—
	future	—		statuitor		statuitor		—		—		statuuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		statuere			statuī			statuēns			—
future		statūtūrum esse			statūtum īrī			statūtūrus			statuendus
perfect		statuisse			statūtum esse			—			statūtus
future perfect		—			statūtum fore			—			—
perfect potential		statūtūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		statuendī		statuendō		statuendum		statuendō		statūtum		statūtū

Synonyms

• (set): pono, collocō, locō, sisto, figo, constituo, struō, defigo, impono
• (build): aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, condō, compōnō, fundō, exstruō, cōnstituō, mōlior
• (decide): cōnstituō, parō, dēcernō, cernō, placeō

Derived terms

• astituō
• constituō
• dēstituō
• instituō
• praestituō
• prōstituō
• restituō
• statua f
• statūtiō f
• statūtus
• substituō

Descendants

• → English: statue, statute
• French: statue, statuer, statut
• Italian: statuire
• Portuguese: estatuir
• Romanian: statua
• Sicilian: statuiri
• Spanish: estatuir

References

• “statuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “statuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “statuo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one: exemplum in aliquo or in aliquem statuere
    
  • to set a limit to a thing: modum facere, statuere, constituere alicui rei or alicuius rei
    
  • to limit one's expenditure: sumptibus modum statuere
    
  • to fix a price for a thing: pretium alicui rei statuere, constituere (Att. 13. 22)
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “statute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.