Where does “situation” come from?
situation (Middle French) comes from Latin situatio, from Latin situō, from Latin situs, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
Ancestry of “situation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | situatio | — |
| 2 | Latin | situō | — |
| 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 “situation”