Definify.com

Definition 2024


sitis

sitis

See also: sitīs

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

sitis f (genitive sitis); third declension

  1. thirst
Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in .

Case Singular
nominative sitis
genitive sitis
dative sitī
accusative sitem
sitim
ablative site
sitī
vocative sitis
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
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sitis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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, page 568

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sum (I am).

Pronunciation

Verb

sītis

  1. second-person plural present active subjunctive of sum

Latvian

Participle

sitis (def. situšais)

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

Declension