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A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate.

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or **status or (hypercorrect) stati)

  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.
    Near-synonym: footing
    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.

person’s position or standing

prestige or high standing

situation or state of affairs — see also state

medicine: prolonged attack of asthma or epilepsy

Translations to be checked

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status m (invariable)

  1. alternative spelling of estatus

From English status.

status

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) relationship status

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

Borrowed from Latin status.

status m inan

  1. status

Learned borrowing from Latin status.

status c (singular definite statussen or statusen, plural indefinite statusser or statuser)

  1. status (condition)
  2. (accounting) a company's statements of assets and liabilities (annual accounts)
  3. status (station, social standing)

Learned borrowing from Latin status.

status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)

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

status

  1. conditional of stati

Borrowed from Latin status.

status

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

From Dutch status, from Latin status.

status (plural **status-status)

  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.

Borrowed from Latin status.

status m (invariable)

  1. status (position in society)

Inherited from Proto-Italic *statos. Perfect passive participle of sistō (“to 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-Italic *status, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tus ~ *sth₂téws. 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.

statùs m (feminine stati̇̀) stress pattern 4

  1. steep, precipitous
    status kalnas - a steep mountain

(Adjectives)

From Latin status.

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

  1. status

From Latin status.

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

  1. status

Learned borrowing from Latin status.

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

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
    • 2007, Márcia Tolotti, As Armadilhas do Consumo, Elsevier Brasil, →ISBN, page 51:
      O desejo por status pode ser considerado, no seu extremo, uma doença moderna e coletiva. Isso ocorre quando a falta ou a escassez de bens materiais representa um autodesprezo e uma prova de inferioridade.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from Latin status.

status n (plural statusuri)

  1. state, status, condition

Borrowed from Latin status.

status m

  1. status

Borrowed from Latin status.

státus m inan (Cyrillic spelling ста́тус)

  1. status, rank

status m (plural **status)

  1. alternative spelling of estatus

Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “status”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

From Latin status.

status c

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