status

See also: Status, státus, and statūs

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪt.əs/

• Audio (GB)

  (file)

• (US, Canada) enPR: stătəs, IPA^(key): /ˈstæt.əs/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪtəs, -ætəs

NounEdit

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or statūs)

1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

   Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.

2. 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.

3. A situation or state of affairs.

   What's the status of the investigation?

   New York is known for its status as a financial center.

   • 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.

4. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
   1. (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.

5. (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.

   I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

6. (medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

Derived termsEdit

• status quo
• status symbol

TranslationsEdit

person’s position or standing

• Arabic: تَرْتِيب‎‎ (tartīb), دَرَجَة‎‎ (daraja), رُتْبَة‎‎ (ar) (rutba), مَرْتَبَة‎‎ (martaba), مَنْزِلَة‎‎ (manzila), مَنْصِب‎‎ (ar) (manṣib)
• Armenian: կարգավիճակ (hy) (kargavičak)
• Bashkir: торош (toroš)
• Czech: postavení (cs), životní úroveň
• Dutch: status (nl)
• Estonian: seisund
• Finnish: asema (fi), status (fi)
• French: état (fr) m
• German: Status (de) m
• Greek: υπόσταση (el) f (ypóstasi), θέση (el) f (thési)
• Icelandic: staða f
• Italian: stato (it) m
• Japanese: 地位 (ja) (chii), 身分 (ja) (mibun)

• Korean: 지위 (ko) (jiwi), 신분 (ko) (sinbun)
• Maori: tupu (mi), tūranga
• Norwegian: status (no) m
• Persian: جایگاه‎‎ (fa) (jaygah)
• Portuguese: status (pt) m
• Romanian: statut (ro) n, poziție (ro) (a cuiva)
• Russian: положе́ние (ru) n (položénije), состоя́ние (ru) n (sostojánije), ста́тус (ru) m (státus)
• Serbo-Croatian: статус m (status)
• Swedish: status (sv) c
• Telugu: స్థానం (te) (sthānaṃ)
• Turkish: statü (tr)
• Welsh: statws (cy) m

prestige or high standing

• Bashkir: абруй (abruy)
• Dutch: aanzien (nl)
• Finnish: status (fi)

• Korean: 높은 지위 (nopeun jiwi), 신망 (ko) (sinmang)
• Portuguese: status (pt) m

situation or state of affairs

• Armenian: իրավիճակ (hy) (iravičak)
• Bashkir: хәл (xäl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 状态 (zh) (zhuàngtài)

• Czech: stav (cs)
• Dutch: status (nl)
• Estonian: olek, seisund
• Finnish: tila (fi), tilanne (fi)
• German: Stand (de) m, Status (de) m
• Greek: κατάσταση (el) f (katástasi), υπόσταση (el) f (ypóstasi), καθεστώς (el) n (kathestós)
• Indonesian: keadaan (id)

• Italian: stato (it) m
• Japanese: 状態 (ja) (jōtai), 様子 (ja) (yōsu), 有様 (arisama)
• Korean: 상태 (ko) (sangtae), 사정 (ko) (sajeong), 사태 (ko) (satae)
• Polish: stan (pl) m
• Portuguese: estado (pt) m, status (pt) m
• Romanian: stare (ro) f, situație (ro)
• Russian: положе́ние (ru) n (položénije), состоя́ние (ru) n (sostojánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: статус m (status), stanje (sh) n
• Spanish: estado (es) m
• Turkish: durum (tr)
• Welsh: statws (cy) m

legal condition

• Finnish: oikeusasema

social networking: function of some instant messaging applications

• Finnish: tila (fi)

medicine: prolonged attack of asthma or epilepsy

• Finnish: status (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} وَضْع اِجْتِمَاعِيّ‎‎ m (waḍʿ ijtimāʿiyy)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} statuso
• French: ^{(please verify)} statut (fr) m
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} स्तिथि (stithi)

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} oireachas m
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} وضعیت‎‎ (fa) (vadiyet)
• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} inbhe f
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} స్థాయి (te) (sthāyi), ^{(please verify)} ప్రతిష్ట (te) (pratiṣṭa), ^{(please verify)} స్థితి (te) (sthiti)

Further readingEdit

• "status" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 299.

AnagramsEdit

• suttas

---

CatalanEdit

NounEdit

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

---

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Latin sto

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /status/

NounEdit

status m, inanimate

1. status

DeclensionEdit

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	status	statusy
genitive	statusu	statusů
dative	statusu	statusům
accusative	status	statusy
vocative	statuse	statusy
locative	statusu, statuse	statusech
instrumental	statusem	statusy

Derived termsEdit

• status quo

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• arest
• arestovat
• distance
• distancovat
• etatismus
• instance
• instantní
• instituce
• instituovat
• institut
• konstanta
• konstantní
• konstatovat
• konstituce
• konstituovat
• prostituce
• prostituovat
• prostitut
• prostitutka
• restituce
• restituent
• restituovat
• stabilita
• stabilizace
• stabilizátor
• stabilizovat
• stabilní
• stacionární
• stacionář
• stát
• statistický
• statistik
• statistika
• stativ
• státní
• státník
• státotvorný
• statut
• statutární
• stáž
• substance
• substantivní
• substantivum
• substituce
• substitut
• zestátnit

Further readingEdit

• status in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• status in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

---

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin status.

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sta‧tus

NounEdit

status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)

1. status (all senses)
2. medical file

---

EsperantoEdit

VerbEdit

status

1. conditional of stati

---

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin status.

NounEdit

status

1. status (person's position or standing; high standing)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of status (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		status	statukset
genitive		statuksen	statusten statuksien
partitive		statusta	statuksia
illative		statukseen	statuksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		status	statukset
accusative	nom.	status	statukset
	gen.	statuksen
genitive		statuksen	statusten statuksien
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

• tassut

---

ItalianEdit

NounEdit

status m (invariable)

1. status (position in society)

ReferencesEdit

• Corriere Della Sera

---

LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tus/, [ˈsta.tʊs]

Etymology 1Edit

Perfect passive participle of sistō (“I cause to stand, set, place”).

ParticipleEdit

status m (feminine stata, neuter statum); first/second declension

1. fixed, set, having been set.
2. regular.

InflectionEdit

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
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

1. state, status, condition
2. position, place
3. rank, status
4. (New Latin, nonstandard) state, a political division retaining a notable degree of autonomy.

   • Statūs Ūnītī Mexicāni

     United Mexican States, a Latinization of the official name of Mexico

InflectionEdit

Fourth declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	status	statūs
genitive	statūs	statuum
dative	statuī	statibus
accusative	statum	statūs
ablative	statū	statibus
vocative	status	statūs

Derived termsEdit

• statuō

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
    

---

LithuanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /staˈtus/

AdjectiveEdit

statùs m (feminine statì) stress pattern 4

1. steep, precipitous

   status kalnas - a steep mountain

DeclensionEdit

non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of status

positive degree
neuter		statu
	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
nominative	status	statūs		stati	stačios
genitive	stataus	stačių		stačios	stačių
dative	stačiam	statiems		stačiai	stačioms
accusative	statų	stačius		stačią	stačias
instrumental	stačiu	stačiais		stačia	stačiomis
locative	stačiame	stačiuose		stačioje	stačiose
vocative	status	statūs		stati	stačios
comparative degree
neuter		stačiau
	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
nominative	statesnis	statesni		statesnė	statesnės
genitive	statesnio	statesnių		statesnės	statesnių
dative	statesniam	statesniems		statesnei	statesnėms
accusative	statesnį	statesnius		statesnę	statesnes
instrumental	statesniu	statesniais		statesne	statesnėmis
locative	statesniame	statesniuose		statesnėje	statesnėse
superlative degree
neuter		stačiausia
	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
nominative	stačiausias	stačiausi		stačiausia	stačiausios
genitive	stačiausio	stačiausių		stačiausios	stačiausių
dative	stačiausiam	stačiausiems		stačiausiai	stačiausioms
accusative	stačiausią	stačiausius		stačiausią	stačiausias
instrumental	stačiausiu	stačiausiais		stačiausia	stačiausiomis
locative	stačiausiame	stačiausiuose		stačiausioje	stačiausiose

pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of status

positive degree
	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
nominative	statusis	statieji		stačioji	stačiosios
genitive	stačiojo	stačiųjų		stačiosios	stačiųjų
dative	stačiajam	statiesiems		stačiajai	stačiosioms
accusative	statųjį	stačiuosius		stačiąją	stačiąsias
instrumental	stačiuoju	stačiaisiais		stačiąja	stačiosiomis
locative	stačiajame	stačiuosiuose		stačiojoje	stačiosiose
vocative	statusis	statieji		stačioji	stačiosios
comparative degree
	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
nominative	statesnysis	statesnieji		statesnioji	statesniosios
genitive	statesniojo	statesniųjų		statesniosios	statesniųjų
dative	statesniajam	statesniesiems		statesniajai	statesniosioms
accusative	statesnįjį	statesniuosius		statesniąją	statesniąsias
instrumental	statesniuoju	statesniaisiais		statesniąja	statesniosiomis
locative	statesniajame	statesniuosiuose		statesniojoje	statesniosiose
superlative degree
	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
nominative	stačiausiasis	stačiausieji		stačiausioji	stačiausiosios
genitive	stačiausiojo	stačiausiųjų		stačiausiosios	stačiausiųjų
dative	stačiausiajam	stačiausiesiems		stačiausiajai	stačiausiosioms
accusative	stačiausiąjį	stačiausiuosius		stačiausiąją	stačiausiąsias
instrumental	stačiausiuoju	stačiausiaisiais		stačiausiąja	stačiausiosiomis
locative	stačiausiajame	stačiausiuosiuose		stačiausiojoje	stačiausiosiose

Related termsEdit

(Adjectives)

• stačias

---

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin status

NounEdit

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statuser, definite plural statusene)

1. status

Derived termsEdit

• bystatus
• statussymbol

ReferencesEdit

• “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

---

Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin status

NounEdit

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statusar, definite plural statusane)

1. status

Derived termsEdit

• bystatus
• statussymbol

ReferencesEdit

• “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

---

PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

status m (plural status)

1. status; standing (a person’s importance relative to others)

QuotationsEdit

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:status.

---

RomanschEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin status.

NounEdit

status m

1. status

SynonymsEdit

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi

---

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /stǎːtus/
• Hyphenation: sta‧tus

NounEdit

státus m (Cyrillic spelling ста́тус)

1. status, rank

DeclensionEdit

Declension of status

	singular	plural
nominative	status	statusi
genitive	statusa	statusa
dative	statusu	statusima
accusative	status	statuse
vocative	statuse	statusi
locative	statusu	statusima
instrumental	statusom	statusima

---

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

---

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

status c

1. status, social standing, rank, situation

DeclensionEdit

Declension of status
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	status	statusen	statusar	statusarna
Genitive	status	statusens	statusars	statusarnas

Related termsEdit

• statusjakt
• statussymbol