statuo

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /staˈtuo/
  • Rhymes: -uo
  • Hyphenation: sta‧tu‧o

Noun

statuo (accusative singular statuon, plural statuoj, accusative plural statuojn)

  1. statue

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Latin

Etymology

    From status (position). Given Umbrian 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌕𐌀 (statita, past part. acc. pl. n.), one can even reconstruct Proto-Italic *statuō.

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    Verb

    statuō (present infinitive statuere, perfect active statuī, supine statūtum); third conjugation

    1. to put up (something)
    2. to stand (something) in an upright position
    3. 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.
    4. to erect
    5. to hold up, stop, end
    6. to decide, make up (one's mind)

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    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)
    • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “statute”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.