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^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “situs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 568
“situs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“situs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
situs in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
situs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
the situation of a place: situs loci
to be favourably situated: opportuno loco situm or positum esse
the city is very beautifully situated: urbs situ ad aspectum praeclara est
the city is situate on a bay: urbs in sinu sita est
here lies..: hic situs est...
to depend upon a thing: positum, situm esse in aliqua re
to be in a person's power: in manu, in potestate alicuius situm, positum esse
to give a brief exposition of the geography of Africa: Africae situm paucis exponere
(ambiguous) to suffer agonies of thirst: siti cruciari, premi
situs in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016