statuo
Esperanto edit
Noun edit
statuo (accusative singular statuon, plural statuoj, accusative plural statuojn)
Derived terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From status (“position”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsta.tu.oː/, [ˈs̠t̪ät̪uoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsta.tu.o/, [ˈst̪äːt̪uo]
Verb edit
statuō (present infinitive statuere, perfect active statuī, supine statūtum); third conjugation
- to set up, station (in an upright position)
- to establish, determine, fix (the form or character of)
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- Huic generi militum senatus eundem, quem Cannensibus, finem statuerat militiae.
- For this class of soldier the senate had established a limit in duration to their military service, which was the same as the men at Cannae.
- Huic generi militum senatus eundem, quem Cannensibus, finem statuerat militiae.
- to erect
- to hold up, stop, end
- to decide, make up (one's mind)
Conjugation edit
Synonyms edit
- (set): pono, collocō, locō, sisto, figo, constituo, struō, defigo, impono
- (build): aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, condō, compōnō, fundō, exstruō, cōnstituō, mōlior
- (decide): cōnstituō, parō, dēcernō, cernō, placeō
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: statue
- French: statuer
- Italian: statuire
- Portuguese: estatuir
- Romanian: statua
- Sicilian: statuiri
- Spanish: estatuir
References edit
- “statuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “statuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- statuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one: exemplum in aliquo or in aliquem statuere
- to set a limit to a thing: modum facere, statuere, constituere alicui rei or alicuius rei
- to limit one's expenditure: sumptibus modum statuere
- to fix a price for a thing: pretium alicui rei statuere, constituere (Att. 13. 22)
- to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one: exemplum in aliquo or in aliquem statuere
- “statute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.