statūs

See also: status, Status, and státus

English

Etymology

From Latin statūs, the nominative plural form of status (“condition, position, rank”).

Noun

statūs pl

1. (rare) plural of status
   • 1991, John Lennard, But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English, page 21:

     The reflexivity is perhaps related to the epistemological-ontological duality which the comparison of lunulae and inverted commas establishes: that the mark both establishes different levels and statūs (plural) of meaning, and signals movement between those levels.

   • 2006, Hans J. Vermeer, Luhmann’s “social systems” theory, page 16:

     Analogically we who observe Luhmann’s theory have two statūs²².
     ²² The ū indicates plural: status (singular) vs. statūs (plural), and so likewise with other Latin words of the so-called u-declension, e.g. nexus vs. nexūs.

   • 2016, Epana Medagedara Thejan Jayaneetha Rajapakshe, Network Patterns Of Psychosocial Feelings Expressed On Social Media –Twitter (Bachelors Thesis, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka), page 16:

     11,598,369 Tweets with statūs (hash tags) named ‘love’, ‘happy’, ‘sad’, and ‘fun’ are extracted from 715,027 individuals (twitter users).

Usage notes

Some people consider this form to be valid in Latin only, and use status as the plural form.

Anagrams

• suttas