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Where does “situs” come from?

situs (Latin) comes from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

situs (Latin): permitted, allowed, suffered, having been...

Definitions

  1. permitted, allowed, suffered, having been...

Ancestry of “situs”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
2Proto-Italic-tus—
3Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “situs”

  • situation
  • site
  • website
  • situational
  • situate
  • campsite
  • sitcom
  • situs
  • worksite
  • gravesite
  • offsite
  • multisite
  • situationally
  • townsite
  • subsite
  • jobsite
  • intersite
  • microsite
  • resituate
  • situationist
  • situative
  • homesite
  • intrasite
  • dumpsite
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →