German

Noun

Status m

1. status
2. state (situation)

English

Noun

status ‎(plural statuses or statūs)

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 and 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.

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, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.

      He is a status Indian.

5. (social networking) 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".‎

Derived terms

• status quo
• status symbol

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /statʊs/

Noun

status m, inanimate

1. status

Declension

Derived terms

• status quo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sta‧tus

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m ‎(plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)

1. status (all senses)
2. medical file

Esperanto

Verb

status

1. conditional of stati

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin status.

Noun

status

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

Declension

Italian

Noun

status m ‎(invariable)

1. status (position in society)

References

• Corriere Della Sera

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.tus/, [ˈsta.tʊs]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of stō ‎(“stand, remain”).

Participle

status m ‎(feminine stata, neuter statum); first/second declension

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

Inflection

First/second declension.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

status m ‎(genitive statūs); fourth declension

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

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Derived terms

• statuō

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
    
  • to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: de statu suo or mentis deici (Att. 16. 15)
    
  • to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem gradu movere, depellere or de gradu (statu) deicere
    
  • (ambiguous) my position is considerably improved; my prospects are brighter: meliorem in statum redigor
    
  • (ambiguous) to restore a man to his former position: aliquem in antiquum statum, in pristinum restituere
    
  • (ambiguous) a periodically recurring (annual) sacrifice: sacrificium statum (solemne) (Tusc. 1. 47. 113)
    
  • (ambiguous) to restore the ancient constitution: rem publicam in pristinum statum restituere
    
  • (ambiguous) to endanger the existence of the state: statum rei publicae convellere
    

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin status

Noun

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

1. status

Derived terms

• statussymbol

References

• “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin status

Noun

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

1. status

Derived terms

• statussymbol

References

• “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

status m (plural status)

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

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:status.

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status.

Noun

status m

1. status

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

státus m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ста́тус)

1. status, rank

Declension

Spanish

Noun

status m ‎(plural status)

1. status

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

status c

1. status, social standing, rank, situation

Declension

Related terms

• statusjakt
• statussymbol