sito

sito

See also: SITO, síto, sito-, šito, and шито

Amis

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 生徒 (seito, “student”).

Noun

sito

1. student

Synonyms

• mitiliday

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English store.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sì.tó/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sɪ̀.tó]

Noun

sìtô m (plural sìtô-sìtô, possessed form sìtôn)

1. storeroom

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.to/
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: sì‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin situs (“laid, placed”), perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *si-n-H-, n-infix of the root *sey(H)- (“to put”).

Adjective

sito (feminine sita, masculine plural siti, feminine plural site)

1. (literary) situated, located, lying

Etymology 2

From Latin situs (“position”), from a noun use of the perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”).[2]

Noun

sito m (plural siti)

1. site, specifically:
   1. (obsolete) location, position, situation, site

      Synonyms: position, posizione, situazione

   2. (literary) place, site, location

      Synonyms: luogo, posto

   3. (biology) region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place; site
   4. (Internet) website

      Synonyms: sito internet, sito web

Etymology 3

From Latin situs (“mold, filthiness”, literally “the state of having been left abandoned”), from a noun use of the perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”).[3]

Noun

sito m (plural siti)

1. (literary, regional) bad smell, stink

   Synonyms: puzza, puzzo, tanfo

References

1. sito¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
2. sito² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
3. sito³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.

Anagrams

• Isto, Tosi, isto-, osti, tosi

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Latin

Participle

sitō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of situs

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Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sìto (“sieve”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *séiˀta, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁y-tom, from *seh₁- (“to impress, insert, sow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕi.tɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -itɔ
• Syllabification: si‧to

Noun

sito n (diminutive sitko)

1. sieve
2. (figurative) filter (method of eliminating unsuitable people or things)

Declension

Declension of sito

	singular	plural
nominative	sito	sita
genitive	sita	sit
dative	situ	sitom
accusative	sito	sita
instrumental	sitem	sitami
locative	sicie	sitach
vocative	sito	sita

Derived terms

adjectives

• sitkowy
• sitny
• sitowy

 

nouns

• siciarz
• sitarz
• siteczko
• sitko
• sitnik

 

Further reading

• sito in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sito in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sito (“sieve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sîto/
• Hyphenation: si‧to

Noun

sȉto n (Cyrillic spelling си̏то)

1. sieve

Declension

Declension of sito

	singular	plural
nominative	sȉto	sȉta
genitive	sȉta	sȋtā
dative	situ	sitima
accusative	sito	sita
vocative	sito	sita
locative	situ	sitima
instrumental	sitom	sitima

Further reading

• “sito” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

sito

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of sit

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsito]

Noun

sito n

1. sieve

Further reading

• sito in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situs, perfect passive participle of sinō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsito/ [ˈsi.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: si‧to

Adjective

sito (feminine sita, masculine plural sitos, feminine plural sitas)

1. (formal) located, situated

Further reading

• “sito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̪i.ˈt̪o/

Adverb

sito

1. (interrogative) from where, whence?

   naai sito? ― from where did you depart?

2. (interrogative) to where, whereto?

   ni sito? ― where are you going?

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as sitó)