- IPA(key): /staˈtuo/
- Rhymes:-uo
- Hyphenation: sta‧tu‧o
statuo (accusative singularstatuon,pluralstatuoj,accusative pluralstatuojn)
- statue
Fromstatus(“position”). GivenUmbrian𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌕𐌀(statita,past part. acc. pl. n.), one can even reconstructProto-Italic*statuō.
statuō (present infinitivestatuere,perfect activestatuī,supinestatūtum);third conjugation
- toset up,station(in an upright position)
- toestablish,determine,fix(the form or character of)
27BCE – 25BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita26.1:
- Huic generi militum senatus eundem, quem Cannensibus, finemstatuerat militiae.
- For this class of soldier the senatehad established a limit in duration to their military service, which was the same as the men at Cannae.
- toerect
- tohold up,stop,end
- todecide,make up (one's mind)
- (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
- “statuo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “statuo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- statuo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one:exemplum in aliquo orin aliquem statuere
- to set a limit to a thing:modum facere, statuere, constituere alicui rei oralicuius 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[li] Smith, editors (1911), “statute”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
