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Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *(k)sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, destruction, decrease”), from *dʰgʷʰey- (“to decline, perish”), with the Proto-Indo-European cluster *dʰgʷʰ- metathesizing into pre-Italic *gʷʰdʰ-, yielding *kts- and finally Latin s-. Cognates include Sanskrit क्षिति (kṣíti, “perishing, downfall”) and Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “decrease, emaciation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sitis f sg (genitive sitis); third declension
- thirst
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.
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References
- “sitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sitis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem, sitim explere
- to become thirsty: sitim colligere
- to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
- (ambiguous) to suffer agonies of thirst: siti cruciari, premi
- (ambiguous) to be able to endure hunger and thirst: famis et sitis patientem esse
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 568
Etymology 2
Inflected form of sum (“I am”).
Pronunciation
Verb
sītis
- second-person plural present active subjunctive of sum
Latvian
Participle
sitis (definite situšais)
- having hit, having struck, having beaten; indefinite past active participle of sist
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