Borrowed fromLate Latinsituātus, past participle ofMedieval Latinsituō(“to locate, place”), fromLatinsitus(“a site”).
- (verb)IPA(key): /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.eɪt/,/ˈsɪt.ju.eɪt/
- (adjective)IPA(key): /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.ət/,/ˈsɪt.ju.ət/
- Hyphenation:sit‧u‧ate
situate (third-person singular simple presentsituates,present participlesituating,simple past and past participlesituated)
- (transitive) Toplace on or into a physical location.
The statue issituated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance areasituated behind the building.
- (transitive, figurative) Toplace or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.
The mayor issituated between probable censure and possible recall.
2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination ofHobson-Jobson”, inInternational Journal of Lexicography, volume31, number 4,→DOI, page487:Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather havesituatedHobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project.
2018, Nicole Seymour,Bad Environmentalism, page 7:In the following sections, Isituate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts.
Translations to be checked
situate (comparativemoresituate,superlativemostsituate)
- (now rare)Situated.
- , II.ii.3:
- Wadley in Berkshire issituate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
1667,John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:Pleasuresituate in hill and dale.
- 1938, letter from South African Secretary for Native Affairs to N L Henwood[1]:
- […] the farm Kafferskraal No. 62 is notsituate within a released area and its acquisition by the South African Native Trust is consequently not contemplated.
- (heraldry) Situated; located.
1917,Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, page218:[...] graunted unto ye sayd Arthure Herrys for his Creast on the heaulme a Stagges head losengy couppe siluer & gules horned goldsituate on a wreathe gold & azure mantelled gules doubled siluer which togither w ye sayd ancient Armes viz […] In the yere of our Lord God MCCCCClxxviij[…]
2013, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies,A Complete Guide To Heraldry,→ISBN:The arms of the College of Surgeons in Endinburgh, I fancy, afford the only instance of what is presumably a corpse, the blazon being: "Azure, a man (human body) fesswise between a dexter hand having an eye on the palm issuing out of a cloud downward and a castlesituate on a rock proper, within a bordure or charged with several instruments peculiar to the art (sic); on a canton of the first a saltire argent surmounted of a thistle vert, crowned of the third."
- “situate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “situate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “situate”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
situate
- feminineplural ofsituato
situate f pl
- feminineplural ofsituato
situate
- inflection ofsituare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
situāte
- second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofsituō
situate
- second-personsingular voseoimperative ofsituar combined withte
