Dictionary

situate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈsɪt.ju.ət/
• /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.ət/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (archaic) Situated.
   • Pleasure situate in hill and dale. 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
   • […] 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. 1938, letter from South African Secretary for Native Affairs to N L Henwoodhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200703080215/https://www.justice.gov.za/lcc/jdgm/2002/3-00.pdf
   • Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […]. , II.ii.3
2. Situated; located.
   • 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." 2013, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide To Heraldry, →ISBN:
   • [...] 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 […] 1917, Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, page 218:

Forms

situate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.eɪt/
• /ˈsɪt.ju.eɪt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

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. (figuratively, transitive) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.
   • The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.
   • 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, 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:
   • In the following sections, I situate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts. 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 7:

Forms

Deriveds

missituate · resituate · situative · situatable

Relateds

situation · site

Translations (9)

uk розмісти́ти (place on or into a physical location — see also locate, place, put) · hu elhelyez (place on or into a physical location — see also locate, place, put) · uk розмі́щувати (place on or into a physical location — see also locate, place, put) · uk розміща́ти (place on or into a physical location — see also locate, place, put) · it situare (place on or into a physical location — see also locate, place, put) · ga suigh (place on or into a physical location — see also locate, place, put) · es situar (place on or into a physical location — see also locate, place, put) · fr situer (place on or into a physical location — see also locate, place, put) · ca situar (place on or into a physical location — see also locate, place, put)