• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsi.tis]

sitis

1. masculine plural of siti

sitis

1. plural of siti

From Proto-Italic *(k)sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, destruction, decrease”), from *dʰgʷʰey- (“to decline, perish”), with the Proto-Indo-European cluster *dʰgʷʰ- metathesizing into pre-Italic *gʷʰdʰ-, yielding *kts- and finally Latin s-. Cognates include Sanskrit क्षिति (kṣíti, “perishing, downfall”) and Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “decrease, emaciation”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.tis]

sitis f sg (genitive sitis); third declension

1. thirst
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.327–330:

     Inde, ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora,
     Et cantu quaerulae rumpent arbusta cicadae,
     Ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna jubebo
     currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam;
     […]

     • Translation by James B. Greenough, 1900

       When heaven's fourth hour draws on the thickening drought,
       And shrill cicalas pierce the brake with song,
       Then at the well-springs bid them, or deep pools,
       From troughs of holm-oak quaff the running wave:
       […]

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

• sitiō

• situs

• “sitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sitis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem, sitim explere
    
  • to become thirsty: sitim colligere
    
  • to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
    
  • (ambiguous) to suffer agonies of thirst: siti cruciari, premi
    
  • (ambiguous) to be able to endure hunger and thirst: famis et sitis patientem esse
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 568

Inflected form of sum (“to be”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.tis]

sītis

1. second-person plural present active subjunctive of sum

sitis (definite situšais)

1. having hit, having struck, having beaten; indefinite past active participle of sist

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