Where does “site” come from?

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

site (Old French): site; location

Definitions

  1. site; location

Ancestry of “site”, step by step

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