status

Learned borrowing from Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.

• (UK, General Australian, Ireland, New Zealand, General South African, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪ.təs/^[1]

• Audio (UK):

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• (US, Canada, General Australian, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt.əs/, [ˈstæɾ.əs]

• Audio (US):

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• (Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, many accents) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛː.təs/, /ˈsteː.təs/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəs, -ætəs

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)

1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

   Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.

2. Prestige or high standing.
   • 1957, Gladys Sellew, Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81:

     The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.

   • 1979 April 28, Mary A. Lowry, “Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     It is no secret that the military was a bastion of racism and sexism keeping blacks and women in the housekeeping and other non-status jobs.

3. A situation or state of affairs.

   What's the status of the investigation?

   New York is known for its status as a financial center.

   • 2014 March 15, “Turn It Off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:

     If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

4. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
   1. (Canada, usually used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.

      He is a status Indian.

5. (social media) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

   I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

   • 2012, “Facebook Drama”, performed by Northern Cree:

     I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight

6. (medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

• Rarely, statūs (following Latin) is found as the plural form.

• → Cantonese: status

• "status" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 299.

• suttas

status m (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

From English status.

• IPA^(key): /stei̯⁵⁵ tʰɐs²¹/

status

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) relationship status

Usually in the form A_ or O_, where _ is a number.

• 報status／报status
• A0
• O1

Borrowed from Latin status.

• IPA^(key): [ˈstatus]

status m inan

1. status

• “status”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “status”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “status”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Learned borrowing from Latin status.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.tʏs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sta‧tus

status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)

1. status (condition)
2. status (legal position)
3. status (station, social standing)
4. medical file

• → Indonesian: status

status

1. conditional of stati

Borrowed from Latin status.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑtus/, [ˈs̠tɑ̝t̪us̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑtus
• Hyphenation^(key): sta‧tus

status

1. status (a person's position or standing; high standing)

• “status”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• tassut

From Dutch status, from Latin status.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsta.tʊs]
• Hyphenation: sta‧tus

status (plural status-status, first-person possessive statusku, second-person possessive statusmu, third-person possessive statusnya)

1. status:
   1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
   2. A situation or state of affairs.
   3. A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
2. (healthcare) A medical file, medical record.
   • 2020, Nurman Hidaya, Alfianur, Fitriya Handayani, Manajemen dan Kepemimpinan dalam Keperawatan, Indramayu: Adab, →ISBN:

     Kegiatan audit dilakukan oleh kepala ruangan pada status pasien yang telah pulang atau meninggal.

     Audit was done by ward leader on discharged or death patient's medical record.

   • 2018, Anita Daniel, Secangkir Kopi di Sudut Rumah Sakit, Sleman: Diandra Kreatif:

     Suster April menyerahkan status pasien dengan nama Savannah Wiradinata.

     Nurse April brought Savannah Wiradinata's medical record.

• “status” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Latin status.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tus/
• Rhymes: -atus
• Hyphenation: stà‧tus

status m (invariable)

1. status (position in society)

• status in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tus/, [ˈs̠t̪ät̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tus/, [ˈst̪äːt̪us]

Inherited from Proto-Italic *statos. Perfect passive participle of sistō (“I cause to stand, set, place”) in its causative meaning.

status (feminine stata, neuter statum, adverb statim); first/second-declension participle

1. fixed, set, having been set
2. regular

First/second-declension adjective.

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tus. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *statъ (“wealth”).

status m (genitive statūs); fourth declension

1. state, status, condition
2. position, place
3. rank, status

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

4. (New Latin) state (a political division retaining a notable degree of autonomy)

   Status Papae ― The Papal States, the name of the former territory controlled by the Pope in Italy

   Status Ecclēsiasticus ― The Papal State, an alternative name of the former territory controlled by the Pope in Italy

   Status Pontificus ― The Papal State, yet another alternative name of the former territory controlled by the Pope in Italy

   Statūs Ūnītī Americae ― A New Latin translation of the United States; cf. Cīvitātēs Foederātae Americae.

Fourth-declension noun.

• statuō
• status nātūrae

• “status”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “status”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• status in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /staˈtus/

statùs m (feminine statì) stress pattern 4

1. steep, precipitous

   status kalnas - a steep mountain

(Adjectives)

• stačias

From Latin status.

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statuser, definite plural statusene)

1. status

• bystatus
• statussymbol

• “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin status.

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statusar, definite plural statusane)

1. status

• bystatus
• statussymbol

• “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin status.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tus/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atus
• Syllabification: sta‧tus

status m inan

1. status (person’s position or standing)

   Synonyms: położenie, pozycja

2. (law) status (legal condition)
3. importance, weight

   Synonyms: funkcja, ranga, znaczenie

• status in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• status in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from Latin status. Doublet of estado.

status m (invariable)

1. (sociology) status; standing (a person’s importance relative to others)

   Synonym: estatuto

2. status; state (a condition at some point in time)

   Synonym: estado

3. status; prestige

For quotations using this term, see Citations:status.

Borrowed from Latin status.

status n (plural statusuri)

1. state, status, condition

Borrowed from Latin status.

status m

1. status

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi

Borrowed from Latin status.

• IPA^(key): /stǎːtus/
• Hyphenation: sta‧tus

státus m (Cyrillic spelling ста́тус)

1. status, rank

• IPA^(key): /esˈtatus/ [esˈt̪a.t̪us]
• Rhymes: -atus

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

From Latin status.

• Audio:

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status c

1. status (state)
2. status ((high) social standing)

• statusjakt
• statussymbol

• status in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• status in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• status in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)