Where does “site” come from?
Site comes from Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs meaning "position or place," derived from Latin sinere meaning "to allow or let," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning "to send or let go."
site (English): Sorrow, grief; The place where anything is fixed;...
Definitions
- Sorrow, grief; The place where anything is fixed;...
Ancestry of “site”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | site | — |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | site | site; location |
| 3 | Latin | situs | permitted, allowed, suffered, having been... |
| 4 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
Words derived from “site”