See also: Satis, satış, and ŝatis

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of satisfy. Enhanced by ancestral Latin satis.

Adjective

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satis (comparative more satis, superlative most satis)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of satisfied.

Verb

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satis

  1. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) Clipping of satisfy.

Anagrams

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Esperanto

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Verb

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satis

  1. past of sati

Latin

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Etymology 1

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    From Proto-Indo-European *sh₂tis (satiation, satisfaction), from *seh₂- (to satiate, be satisfied). Cognates include Sanskrit असिन्व (asinvá, insatiable), Ancient Greek ἄω (áō, to satiate) and Old English sæd (full, sated) (English sad).

    Pronunciation

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    Adjective

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    satis (indeclinable)

    1. adequate, enough, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient
    2. filled, satisfied

    Adverb

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    satis (not comparable)

    1. adequately, sufficiently
      Synonyms: sat, affatim
      Antonym: parum
    Derived terms
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    Descendants
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    • Medieval Latin: ad satis (see there for further descendants)
    • Vulgar Latin: *satius (noun)

    Etymology 2

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    Pronunciation

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    Participle

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    satīs

    1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of satus

    Etymology 3

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    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    satīs

    1. dative/ablative plural of sata

    References

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    • satis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • satis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • satis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • satis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • after a fairly long interval: satis longo intervallo
      • I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
      • I am content to..: satis habeo, satis mihi est c. Inf.
      • to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
      • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum est
    • 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 540