statute

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From Middle English statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statuō (“I set up, establish”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstatjuːt/, /ˈstat͡ʃuːt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃuːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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statute (countable and uncountable, plural statutes)

1. A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body.
2. A rule of an organization or institution.
3. (archaic, biblical) A law or decree made by a sovereign, or by God.
4. (law, historical) A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing.
   1. Legal status of being subject to this.
5. (historical) A statute fair.

• (written law as laid down by the legislature): regulation (written law as laid down by a regulatory agency of a governmental executive body)

• “statute, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “statute, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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statūte

1. vocative masculine singular of statūtus

• “statute”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

statute n

1. plural of statut

statute (Cyrillic spelling статуте)

1. inflection of statut:
   1. accusative plural
   2. vocative singular