situate

See also: sítuate

English

Alternative forms

• scituate (hyper‐correct, obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin situātus, past participle of Medieval Latin situō (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.eɪt/, /ˈsɪt.ju.eɪt/

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• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.ət/, /ˈsɪt.ju.ət/

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• Hyphenation: sit‧u‧ate

Verb

situate (third-person singular simple present situates, present participle situating, simple past and past participle situated)

1. (transitive) To place on or into a physical location.

   The statue is situated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area situated behind the building.

2. (transitive) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.

   The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:

     Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather have situated Hobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project.

   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 7:

     In the following sections, I situate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts.

Related terms

• site
• situation

Translations

place on or into a physical location — see also locate,‎ place,‎ put

• Catalan: situar (ca)
• French: situer (fr)
• Hungarian: elhelyez (hu)
• Italian: situare (it)
• Spanish: situar (es)
• Ukrainian: розмі́щувати impf (rozmíščuvaty), розміща́ти impf (rozmiščáty), розмісти́ти pf (rozmistýty)

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• Dutch: situeren (nl)

Adjective

situate (comparative more situate, superlative most situate)

1. (now rare) Situated.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , II.ii.3:

     Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].

   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Pleasure situate in hill and dale.

   • 1938, letter from South African Secretary for Native Affairs to N L Henwood[1]:

     […] the farm Kafferskraal No. 62 is not situate within a released area and its acquisition by the South African Native Trust is consequently not contemplated.

2. (heraldry) Situated; located.
   • 1917, Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, page 218:

     [...] graunted unto ye sayd Arthure Herrys for his Creast on the heaulme a Stagges head losengy couppe siluer & gules horned gold situate 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 castle situate 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."

Further reading

• “situate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “situate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “situate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• usitate

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

situate

1. feminine plural of situato

Participle

situate f pl

1. feminine plural of situato

Etymology 2

Verb

situate

1. inflection of situare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• autiste, usitate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /si.tuˈaː.te/, [s̠ɪt̪uˈäːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /si.tuˈa.te/, [sit̪uˈäːt̪e]

Verb

situāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of situō

Spanish

Verb

situate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of situar combined with te