sitis

See also: sitīs

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

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  1. masculine plural of siti

Noun

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  1. plural of siti

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#SITISCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#SITIS *(k)sitis, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SITIS *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”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#SITIS and Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “decrease, emaciation”).

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. thirst
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 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:
        […]
      Category:Latin terms with quotations#SITIS
Declension

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

Derived terms
Descendants

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
    Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
  • 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 (“to be”).

Pronunciation

Verb

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  1. second-person plural present active subjunctive of sum

Latvian

Participle

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  1. having hit, having struck, having beaten; indefinite past active participle of sistCategory:Latvian past active participles#SITIS

Declension

Indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of sitis
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
singular
(vienskaitlis)		 plural
(daudzskaitlis)		 singular
(vienskaitlis)		 plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominative sitis situši situsi situšas
genitive situša situšu situšas situšu
dative situšam situšiem situšai situšām
accusative situšu situšus situšu situšas
instrumental situšu situšiem situšu situšām
locative situšā situšos situšā situšās
vocative — — — —
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