sitis

See also: sitīs

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *(k)sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, destruction, decrease”), from *dʰgʷʰey- (“to decline, perish”), with the Proto-Indo-European cluster *dʰgʷʰ- metathesizing into pre-Italic *gʷʰdʰ-, yielding *kts- and finally Latin s-. Cognates include Sanskrit क्षिति (kṣíti, “perishing, downfall”) and Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “decrease, emaciation”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tis/, [ˈs̠ɪt̪ɪs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tis/, [ˈsiːt̪is]

Noun

sitis f sg (genitive sitis); third declension

thirst

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	sitis
Genitive	sitis
Dative	sitī
Accusative	sitim
Ablative	sitī
Vocative	sitis

Derived terms

sitiō

Related terms

situs

Descendants

Aromanian: seati
Aragonese: set, sete
Asturian: sede
Catalan: set
Dalmatian: sait
Franco-Provençal: sêt
French: soif
Friulian: sêt
Galician: sede
Italian: sete
Leonese: sede
Occitan: set
Piedmontese: sej, sèj
Portuguese: sede
Romanian: sete
Romansch: said, set
Sardinian: sidi(s), sidi(g)u
Sicilian: siti
Spanish: sed
Venetian: sée, sef
Walloon: soe

References

“sitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
sitis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem, sitim explere
- to become thirsty: sitim colligere
- to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
- (ambiguous) to suffer agonies of thirst: siti cruciari, premi
- (ambiguous) to be able to endure hunger and thirst: famis et sitis patientem esse
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 568

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sum (“I am”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.tis/, [ˈs̠iːt̪ɪs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tis/, [ˈsiːt̪is]

Verb

sītis

second-person plural present active subjunctive of sum

Latvian

Participle

sitis (definite situšais)

having hit, having struck, having beaten; indefinite past active participle of sist

Declension

indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of sitis

	masculine (vīriešu dzimte)		feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	sitis	situši	situsi	situšas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	situšu	situšus	situšu	situšas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	situša	situšu	situšas	situšu
dative (datīvs)	situšam	situšiem	situšai	situšām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	situšu	situšiem	situšu	situšām
locative (lokatīvs)	situšā	situšos	situšā	situšās
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	—	—	—