English → Latin
“standing” in Latin
stōto stand; to stay, remain; to cost, to be set at, stand at (e.g., a price)ērigōto raise up, elevate, lift; to lift, raise, boost; to build, erectstatusstate, status, condition; position, place; rank, statuslocusplace (referring to a specific location); a passage of literature; opportunity; cause; occasion; groundsconditiōa making, creating; condition, status, position, circumstancedignitāsworth, worthiness, merit, desert; fitness, suitability; rank, status, standing, esteem, dignitysorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a casting or drawing of lots, a decision by lot, by fate, or by allotment or shgenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type, class; species (general classification, as of living things), taxon (of anistirpsrootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a plant, including the roots.; a plant, shrub, shoot, sprout; lineage, race,
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
standing
participial adjective, stans. Standing upright, erectus: standing water [Vid: STAGNANT]: a standing camp, castra stativa, -orum, nominative plur.,: a standing army, (we may say) milites perpetui: a standing festival, festi dies anniversarii.
standing s.
The act of standing, status, -ūs.
A place where one stands, locus.
Condition, circumstances, status: conditio.
Rank, position, locus (position in civil relations): dignitas (station according to character, family, etc.): sors (the slate of life to which one has been called or born): genus; stirps (family, descent). ☞ Ordo never means rank or standing, but the whole number of persons of a certain rank or standing, a class.
Age. Anybody of the same standing as another, aequalis alicui; as myself, sequalis meus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for standing?
- The usual Latin words for “standing” are stō, ērigō, status; also locus, conditiō, dignitās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.