site

See also: Site, síte, sítě, and sitʼé

English

Pronunciation

enPR: sīt, IPA^(key): /saɪt/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪt
Homophones: cite, sight

Etymology 1

Probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian syt).

Noun

site (plural sites)

(obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
- a1307, Piers Langtoft, Chronicle, read in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I, Samuel Bagster (1810) p. 5
  Ine þe kyng had a sonne, his name Adellus./Dede he toke & he died, als it salle do vs./Sorow & site he made, þer was non oþer rede,/For his sonne & heyre, þat so sone was dede.

Etymology 2

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of situs.

Noun

site (plural sites)

The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
the site of a city or of a house
- 1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8,
  A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.
- 1705, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay towards the Natural History of England. The Second Edition, with large Additions and Corrections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c., Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315,
  However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....
- 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney, Lea Brothers and Co, p. 74,
  At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎:
  He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
  With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
- 2006, Ernest B Abbott, A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments‎, American Bar Association, →ISBN, page 84:
  EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site.
A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
a site for a church
- 1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures, John Hooke, p. 192,
  The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site, do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.
- 1716, John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions, R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock, p. 208
  Having given you an Account of the Site, Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.
- 2006, Geoff Surratt; Greg Ligon; Warren Bird, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 7:
  Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.
The posture or position of a thing.
- 1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill, p. 179,
  And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.
- 1724, John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words], W. Taylor, p. 11,
  There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
- 2006, Ernest B Abbott, A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments‎, American Bar Association, page 84:
  Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- 1982, Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 433:
  The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...
- 1991, V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol, read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, p. 208,
  If the site is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the site go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the site can fail for other reasons.
- 2006, Keith J. Dreyer, Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution, Springer, →ISBN, page 298:
  The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.
A website.
- 1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi,
  [G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.
- 2006, Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 248:
  When a new visitor arrives at your site, your web server should log the referring site, which is generally either a search engine or another web site.
(category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
A part of the body which has been operated on.

Hyponyms

building site
camping site
campsite
construction site
customer site
jobsite
landfill site
worksite

Derived terms

campsite
jobsite
worksite

Related terms

in situ
situate
situation
situs

Translations

place where anything is fixed; situation; local position

Arabic: مَوْضِع‎ m (mawḍiʿ)
Egyptian Arabic: مكان‎ m (makān)
Bulgarian: място (bg) n (mjasto), местоположе́ние (bg) n (mestopoložénie)
Catalan: lloc (ca) m, terreny (ca) m
Finnish: paikka (fi), sijaintipaikka (fi)
French: site (fr) m, emplacement (fr) m
Galician: sitio m
Georgian: ადგილი (ka) (adgili)
German: Standort (de) m
Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 m (staþs)
Greek: τόπος (el) m (tópos), χώρος (el) m (chóros), τοποθεσία (el) f (topothesía)
Hebrew: אֲתָר‎ (he) m (atár)
Ido: situo (io)
Latin: situs (la) m
Maori: takotoranga, tūranga
Mizo: hmun, ţhuthmun
Persian: جایگاه‎ (fa) (ǰâygâh), گاه‎ (fa) (gâh), محل‎ (fa) (mahall)
Plautdietsch: Städ f
Portuguese: sítio (pt) m, local (pt) m, lugar (pt) m
Russian: местоположе́ние (ru) n (mestopoložénije), местонахожде́ние (ru) n (mestonaxoždénije), ме́сто (ru) n (mésto), положе́ние (ru) n (položénije)
Scots: steid
Scottish Gaelic: suidheachadh m
Spanish: solar (es) m, sitio (es) m
Swedish: ställe (sv), plats (sv)
Tocharian B: īke
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎋𐎐𐎚 (mknt)
Ukrainian: мі́сце (uk) (mísce), місцезнахо́дження (misceznaxódžennja)

place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation

Bulgarian: място (bg) n (mjasto)
Catalan: lloc (ca) m
French: site (fr) m
Greek: τόπος (el) m (tópos), χώρος (el) m (chóros)
Ido: situo (io)
Mizo: ţhuthmun
Persian: جا‎ (fa) (jâ)
Polish: miejsce (pl) n
Russian: уча́сток (ru) m (učástok), площа́дка (ru) f (ploščádka), ме́сто (ru) n (mésto)
Scottish Gaelic: suidheachadh m
Spanish: sitio (es) m
Swedish: säte (sv)
Ukrainian: діля́нка (uk) (diljánka)

posture or position of a thing

Bulgarian: позиция (bg) f (pozicija)
Maori: tūranga
Scottish Gaelic: suidheachadh m

a computer installation

Greek: εγκατάσταση (el) f (egkatástasi)
Scottish Gaelic: ionad m

a website

Arabic: مَوْقِع‎ (ar) m (mawqiʿ)
Bulgarian: интернет страница f (internet stranica)
Catalan: plana web f, lloc web (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 網站／网站 (zh) (wǎngzhàn)
Esperanto: retejo
Estonian: sait (et), leht (et), veebileht
Finnish: sivusto (fi)
French: site (fr) m
Georgian: ვებგვერდი (vebgverdi)
German: Webseite (de) f, Website (de) f, Webpräsenz f
Greek: ιστότοπος (el) m (istótopos), ιστοχώρος (el) m (istochóros), ιστοσελίδα (el) f (istoselída) (webpage)
Hebrew: אֲתָר‎ (he) m (atár)
Hungarian: oldal (hu)
Ido: retoloko
Lithuanian: svetainė (lt)
Mizo: phêk, hmun
Persian: پایگاه‎ (fa) (pâygâh), سایت‎ (fa) (sâyt)
Portuguese: site (pt) m, sítio (pt) m
Russian: сайт (ru) m (sajt), веб-са́йт (ru) m (vɛb-sájt)
Scottish Gaelic: ionad m
Spanish: sitio (es) m, sitio web m
Swedish: sajt (sv) c, webbplats (sv) c, webbsida (sv), hemsida (sv)
Turkish: Web bölgesi, Web sitesi (tr)

region where chemical reactions take place

Catalan: lloc (ca) m
French: site (fr)
Hebrew: אֲתָר‎ (he) m (atár)
Italian: sito (it)
Persian: جایگاه فعال‎
Portuguese: sítio (pt)
Russian: сайт (ru) m (sajt)
Spanish: sitio (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Italian: ^{(please verify)} posto (it), ^{(please verify)} circostanza (it)
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} место, ^{(please verify)} градилиште (construction site)

Verb

site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)

To situate or place a building or construction project.
The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
- 1835, Mining Journal,
  A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.
- 1872, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, p. 24,
  For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.
- 1961 October, “Editorial: The importance of the "Roadrailer"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 577:
  The old staple of coal is a declining traffic; and what remains tends to be hauled a shorter distance, as new power stations are sited closer to coalfields.
- 2006, Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 22:
  It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts to site and construct new plants in the last twenty years.
- 2006, The Scotsman (15 Dec 06),
  Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.
- 2022 September 20, Ezra Klein, quoting Jesse Jenkins, “Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Jesse Jenkins”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:
  […] they have not expanded so far federal permitting authority to site and permit transmission lines that are important for interstate commerce.

Anagrams

EITs, ETSI, Esti, ITEs, SETI, TISE, ties

Aiwoo

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *taci (“younger sibling of the same sex”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta-huaji, from *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

Noun

site

her sister

References

Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

Chuukese

Etymology

si- +‎ -te

Pronoun

site

we (inclusive) will never
so we (inclusive) do not

Related terms

		Present and past tense	Negative tense	Future	Negative future	Distant future	Negative determinate
Singular	First person	ua	use	upwe	usap	upwap	ute
	Second person	ka, ke	kose, kese	kopwe, kepwe	kosap, kesap	kopwap, kepwap	kote, kete
	Third person	a	ese	epwe	esap	epwap	ete
Plural	First person	aua (exclusive) sia (inclusive)	ause (exclusive) sise (inclusive)	aupwe (exclusive) sipwe (inclusive)	ausap (exclusive) sisap (inclusive)	aupwap (exclusive) sipwap (inclusive)	aute (exclusive) site (inclusive)
	Second person	oua	ouse	oupwe	ousap	oupwap	oute
	Third person	ra, re	rese	repwe	resap	repwap	rete

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English site.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɑi̯t/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: site

Noun

site m (plural sites, diminutive siteje n)

web site
Synonyms: website, webstek
archaeological site
Synonym: opgraving
(uncommon) construction site
Synonym: bouwplaats

Derived terms

advertentiesite
datingsite
gamesite
goksite
internetsite
nieuwssite
sekssite
pornosite
vacaturesite
veilingsite

French

Etymology

From Latin situs.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sit/
Audio (file)
Homophones: cite, citent, cites, scythe, Scythe, scythes, Scythes, sites

Noun

site m (plural sites)

site
(Internet) website

Derived terms

site de rencontres
site web
site Internet
site perso

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsi.te/
Rhymes: -ite
Hyphenation: sì‧te

Adjective

site f pl

feminine plural of sito

Anagrams

-esti, -iste, seti, stie, tesi

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tshia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sʰi˥.te˧/

Adjective

site

bad

Synonyms

hawi-yte

Derived terms

bälungsite

References

R. Shafer (1944), “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 429
K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎, Payap University, page 50

Latin

Participle

site

vocative masculine singular of situs

Middle English

Noun

site

Alternative form of cite

Neapolitan

Verb

site

second-person plural present indicative of èssere

Old French

Etymology

From Latin situs.

Noun

site m (oblique plural sites, nominative singular sites, nominative plural site)

site; location

Descendants

→ English: site
- French: site

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (site)

sit on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Portuguese

Alternative forms

saite (Brazilian)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English site.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˈsaɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaj.te/ [ˈsaɪ̯.te]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsaj.t(ɨ)/

Noun

site m (plural sites)

site; web site (a collection of pages on the World Wide Web)
Synonyms: sítio, website, web site

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:site.

Romanian

Alternative forms

sit
sait (neologism)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English site.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsajt/

Noun

site n (plural site-uri)

(Internet) website

Declension

Declension of site

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) site	site-ul	(niște) site-uri	site-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) site	site-ului	(unor) site-uri	site-urilor
vocative	site-ule		site-urilor

Derived terms

site web

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

site

inflection of sit:
1. masculine accusative plural
2. feminine genitive singular
3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Noun

site

locative singular of sito

Turkish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [siˈte]
Hyphenation: si‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French cité.

Noun

site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)

housing estate
city

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

site

Definite accusative

siteyi

Singular

Plural

Nominative

site

siteler

Definite accusative

siteyi

siteleri

Dative

siteye

sitelere

Locative

sitede

sitelerde

Ablative

siteden

sitelerden

Genitive

sitenin

sitelerin

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitem	sitelerim
2nd singular	siten	sitelerin
3rd singular	sitesi	siteleri
1st plural	sitemiz	sitelerimiz
2nd plural	siteniz	siteleriniz
3rd plural	siteleri	siteleri
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitemi	sitelerimi
2nd singular	siteni	sitelerini
3rd singular	sitesini	sitelerini
1st plural	sitemizi	sitelerimizi
2nd plural	sitenizi	sitelerinizi
3rd plural	sitelerini	sitelerini
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	siteme	sitelerime
2nd singular	sitene	sitelerine
3rd singular	sitesine	sitelerine
1st plural	sitemize	sitelerimize
2nd plural	sitenize	sitelerinize
3rd plural	sitelerine	sitelerine
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitemde	sitelerimde
2nd singular	sitende	sitelerinde
3rd singular	sitesinde	sitelerinde
1st plural	sitemizde	sitelerimizde
2nd plural	sitenizde	sitelerinizde
3rd plural	sitelerinde	sitelerinde
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitemden	sitelerimden
2nd singular	sitenden	sitelerinden
3rd singular	sitesinden	sitelerinden
1st plural	sitemizden	sitelerimizden
2nd plural	sitenizden	sitelerinizden
3rd plural	sitelerinden	sitelerinden
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitemin	sitelerimin
2nd singular	sitenin	sitelerinin
3rd singular	sitesinin	sitelerinin
1st plural	sitemizin	sitelerimizin
2nd plural	sitenizin	sitelerinizin
3rd plural	sitelerinin	sitelerinin

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from English site, with pronunciation kept from earlier borrowing from French.

Noun

site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)

(Internet) Web site

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

site

Definite accusative

siteyi

Singular

Plural

Nominative

site

siteler

Definite accusative

siteyi

siteleri

Dative

siteye

sitelere

Locative

sitede

sitelerde

Ablative

siteden

sitelerden

Genitive

sitenin

sitelerin

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitem	sitelerim
2nd singular	siten	sitelerin
3rd singular	sitesi	siteleri
1st plural	sitemiz	sitelerimiz
2nd plural	siteniz	siteleriniz
3rd plural	siteleri	siteleri
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitemi	sitelerimi
2nd singular	siteni	sitelerini
3rd singular	sitesini	sitelerini
1st plural	sitemizi	sitelerimizi
2nd plural	sitenizi	sitelerinizi
3rd plural	sitelerini	sitelerini
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	siteme	sitelerime
2nd singular	sitene	sitelerine
3rd singular	sitesine	sitelerine
1st plural	sitemize	sitelerimize
2nd plural	sitenize	sitelerinize
3rd plural	sitelerine	sitelerine
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitemde	sitelerimde
2nd singular	sitende	sitelerinde
3rd singular	sitesinde	sitelerinde
1st plural	sitemizde	sitelerimizde
2nd plural	sitenizde	sitelerinizde
3rd plural	sitelerinde	sitelerinde
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitemden	sitelerimden
2nd singular	sitenden	sitelerinden
3rd singular	sitesinden	sitelerinden
1st plural	sitemizden	sitelerimizden
2nd plural	sitenizden	sitelerinizden
3rd plural	sitelerinden	sitelerinden
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	sitemin	sitelerimin
2nd singular	sitenin	sitelerinin
3rd singular	sitesinin	sitelerinin
1st plural	sitemizin	sitelerimizin
2nd plural	sitenizin	sitelerinizin
3rd plural	sitelerinin	sitelerinin

Derived terms

Web sitesi

site

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

Further reading

Anagrams

Aiwoo

Etymology

Noun

References

Chuukese

Etymology

Pronoun

Related terms

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

Adjective

Anagrams

Khumi Chin

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

Latin

Participle

Middle English

Noun

Neapolitan

Verb

Old French

Etymology

Noun

Descendants

References

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Quotations

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

Slovak

Noun

Turkish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

Declension