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Noun
statuo (accusative singular statuon, plural statuoj, accusative plural statuojn)
- statue
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From status (“position”).
Pronunciation
Verb
statuō (present infinitive statuere, perfect active statuī, supine statūtum); third conjugation
- to set up, station (in an upright position)
- to establish, determine, fix (the form or character of)
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- Huic generi militum senatus eundem, quem Cannensibus, finem statuerat militiae.
- For this class of soldier the senate had established a limit in duration to their military service, which was the same as the men at Cannae.
- to erect
- to hold up, stop, end
- to decide, make up (one's mind)
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (set): pono, collocō, locō, sisto, figo, constituo, struō, defigo, impono
- (build): aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, condō, compōnō, fundō, exstruō, cōnstituō, mōlior
- (decide): cōnstituō, parō, dēcernō, cernō, placeō
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “statuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “statuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- statuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one: exemplum in aliquo or in aliquem statuere
- to set a limit to a thing: modum facere, statuere, constituere alicui rei or alicuius rei
- to limit one's expenditure: sumptibus modum statuere
- to fix a price for a thing: pretium alicui rei statuere, constituere (Att. 13. 22)
- “statute”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.