Where does “site” come from?

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

site (Middle English): sorrow, grief

Definitions

  1. sorrow, grief

Ancestry of “site”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normansitesite; location
2Latinsituspermitted, allowed, suffered, having been...
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “site”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin situs →