different between situation vs situs

English

Alternative forms

• scituation (hyper?correct, obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English situacioun, situacion, from Middle French situation, from Medieval Latin situatio (“position, situation”), from situare (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”). Equivalent to situate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t-yo?o-?'sh?n, s?ch-o?o-?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /s?tju??e???n/, /s?t?u?(w)e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

situation (plural situations)

1. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
2. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     ...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive.

3. The place in which something is situated; a location.
   • 1833, Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist, The American Flower Garden Directory, page 142:

     [Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves a situation in every garden.

4. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
5. (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, page 78:

     When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.

   • 1946, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie:

     You take a morning paper from the top of the stack

     And read the situations from the front to the back

     The only job that's open need a man with a knack

     So put it right back in the rack Jack.

6. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.

   Boss, we've got a situation here...

Synonyms

• (combination of circumstances): condition, set up; see also Thesaurus:state

Related terms

• site
• situate
• situated
• situationism

Translations

See also

• situation comedy, sitcom

References

• Source for the definitions:
  • Dictionary.com. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. [1] (accessed: March 10, 2007).
• situation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• situation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• situation at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• titanious

French

Etymology

situer +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.t?a.sj??/

Noun

situation f (plural situations)

1. situation (all meanings)

Derived terms

• mise en situation
• situation intéressante

Descendants

• ? Romanian: situa?ie

Further reading

• “situation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

situation (plural situationes)

1. situation, state of affairs

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?tva??u?n/, /s?t?a??u?n/

Noun

situation c

1. a situation

Declension

Synonyms

• läge

Related terms

• nödsituation
• situationskomik

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?t?s/

Noun

situs (plural situses)

1. The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant.
2. The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged.
3. (law) The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes.
4. (real estate) The portion of an address comprising street number and street name, such as "3912 Park Drive".

Derived terms

• 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• situs in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• situs at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Suits, Tsuis, suist, suits

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin situs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sit?s]
• Hyphenation: si?tus

Noun

situs (first-person possessive situsku, second-person possessive situsmu, third-person possessive situsnya)

1. site:
   1. (archaeology) archaeological site.
   2. (computing) website

Hyponyms

Further reading

• “situs” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?si.tus/, [?s??t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?si.tus/, [?si?t?us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of sin? (“put, lay, set down; usually let, suffer, permit”).

Participle

situs (feminine sita, neuter situm); first/second-declension participle

1. permitted, allowed, suffered, having been permitted
2. put, laid or set down, having been set down
3. (by extension) placed, set, lying, situated, positioned
4. (by extension, of the dead) lying, laid, buried, interred
5. (by extension) built, founded
6. (figuratively) placed, situated, present, ready
7. (figuratively) dependent upon

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• siticen

Noun

situs m (genitive sit?s); fourth declension

1. The manner of lying; the situation, position or site of something.
2. A quarter of the world, region.
3. (Late Latin) description

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

According to de Vaan, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??i-téw-s, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ey- (“to decline, perish”).

Noun

situs m (genitive sit?s); fourth declension

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

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: sito

Related terms

• sitis

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• situs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• situs in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• site in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.