sitis

See also: sitīs

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈsi.tis]

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 क्षिति॑ (kṣíti, “perishing, downfall”) and Ancient Greek φθῐ́σῐς (phthĭ́sĭs, “decrease, emaciation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.tis]

Noun

sitis f sg (genitive sitis); third declension

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:
       […]

Declension

Third-declension noun (pure i-stem), singular only.

	singular
nominative	sitis
genitive	sitis
dative	sitī
accusative	sitim
ablative	sitī
vocative	sitis

Derived terms

• sitiō

Related terms

• situs

Descendants

• Aromanian: seati
• Aragonese: set, sete
• Asturian: sede
• Catalan: set
• Dalmatian: sait
• Emilian: said
• Franco-Provençal: sêf
• Friulian: sêt
• Italian: sete
• Leonese: sede
• Occitan: set
• Old French: soif, sai, sef, sei, seid, seif, seit, seyf, soi
  • French: soif
  • Walloon: soe
• Old Galician-Portuguese: sede
  • Galician: sede
  • Portuguese: sede
• Old Spanish: sed, sede, set
  • Ladino: sed / סיד
  • Spanish: sed
• Piedmontese: sej, sèj
• Romanian: sete
• Romansh: said, set
• Sardinian: sidi(s), sidi(g)u
• Sicilian: siti
• Venetan: sede, sée, sef

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^[1], 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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.tis]

Verb

sītis

1. second-person plural present active subjunctive of sum

Latvian

Participle

sitis (definite situšais)

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

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	—	—	—	—