status
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈsteɪt.əs/
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Audio (GB) (file) - (US, Canada) enPR: stătəs, IPA(key): /ˈstæt.əs/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtəs, -ætəs
NounEdit
status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or statūs)
- A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
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Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
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- Prestige or high standing.
- 1957, Gladys Sellew and Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81
- The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.
- 1957, Gladys Sellew and Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81
- A situation or state of affairs.
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What's the status of the investigation?
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New York is known for its status as a financial center.
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2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:
- If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
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- (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
- (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.
- He is a status Indian.
- (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.
- (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
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I'm just about to update my status to "busy".
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- (medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
person’s position or standing
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prestige or high standing
situation or state of affairs
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AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
CzechEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
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Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sta‧tus
NounEdit
status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)
- status (all senses)
- medical file
EsperantoEdit
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
status
- status (person's position or standing; high standing)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of status (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | status | statukset | |
| genitive | statuksen | statusten statuksien |
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| partitive | statusta | statuksia | |
| illative | statukseen | statuksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | status | statukset | |
| accusative | nom. | status | statukset |
| gen. | statuksen | ||
| genitive | statuksen | statusten statuksien |
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| partitive | statusta | statuksia | |
| inessive | statuksessa | statuksissa | |
| elative | statuksesta | statuksista | |
| illative | statukseen | statuksiin | |
| adessive | statuksella | statuksilla | |
| ablative | statukselta | statuksilta | |
| allative | statukselle | statuksille | |
| essive | statuksena | statuksina | |
| translative | statukseksi | statuksiksi | |
| instructive | — | statuksin | |
| abessive | statuksetta | statuksitta | |
| comitative | — | statuksineen | |
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Perfect passive participle of stō (“stand, remain”).
ParticipleEdit
status m (feminine stata, neuter statum); first/second declension
InflectionEdit
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | status | stata | statum | statī | statae | stata | |
| genitive | statī | statae | statī | statōrum | statārum | statōrum | |
| dative | statō | statō | statīs | ||||
| accusative | statum | statam | statum | statōs | statās | stata | |
| ablative | statō | statā | statō | statīs | |||
| vocative | state | stata | statum | statī | statae | stata | |
DescendantsEdit
- Albanian: shtet
- Asturian: estáu
- Catalan: estat, estatus (borrowed)
- Dutch: staat (through Old French)
- English: estate (through Anglo-Norman), state (through Old French), status (borrowed)
- French: état (borrowed), été
- Friulian: stât
- Galician: estado
- German: Staat (through Old French); Status (borrowed)
- Irish: stad (borrowed), eastát (through Anglo-Norman)
- Italian: stato, status (borrowed)
- Ladin: stat
- Mirandese: stado
- Occitan: estat
- Old French: estat (borrowed), esté
- Portuguese: estado, status (borrowed)
- Romanian: stat, status (borrowed)
- Romansch: stadi, stedi, stat, status (borrowed)
- Russian: ста́тус (státus) (borrowed)
- Sardinian: istadu, istatu, istau
- Sicilian: statu
- Spanish: estado, estatus (borrowed)
- Venetian: stato, stado
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
status m (genitive statūs); fourth declension
- state, status, condition
- position, place
- rank, status
- (New Latin, nonstandard) state, a political division retaining a notable degree of autonomy.
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Foederāti Statūs Mexicāni
- United Mexican States, a Latinization of the official name of Mexico
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InflectionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
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| nominative | status | statūs |
| genitive | statūs | statuum |
| dative | statuī | statibus |
| accusative | statum | statūs |
| ablative | statū | statibus |
| vocative | status | statūs |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- status in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- status in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- status in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
- to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: de statu suo or mentis deici (Att. 16. 15)
- to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem gradu movere, depellere or de gradu (statu) deicere
- (ambiguous) my position is considerably improved; my prospects are brighter: meliorem in statum redigor
- (ambiguous) to restore a man to his former position: aliquem in antiquum statum, in pristinum restituere
- (ambiguous) a periodically recurring (annual) sacrifice: sacrificium statum (solemne) (Tusc. 1. 47. 113)
- (ambiguous) to restore the ancient constitution: rem publicam in pristinum statum restituere
- (ambiguous) to endanger the existence of the state: statum rei publicae convellere
- to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
LithuanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
statùs m (feminine statì) stress pattern 4
DeclensionEdit
non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of status
pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of status
Related termsEdit
(Adjectives)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statuser, definite plural statusene)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statusar, definite plural statusane)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
status m (plural status)
QuotationsEdit
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:status.