adverb
satisne
satisne (not comparable)
Classical[saˈtɪs.nɛ]Ecclesiastical[saˈtiz.ne]
Meaning
- not comparableintroducing questions
Roget satisne tempori opera sient confecta.
Let him ask whether the works were done timely enough.By April Cicero was back in the city, and wondering whether to accept Varro's invitation to Cumae: etsi uide, quaeso, satisne rectum sit nos hoc tanto incendio ciuitatis in istis locis esse; ... But pray ask yourself whether it is quite proper for us to be down there at such a time of national convulsion.
2008, T. P. Wiseman, Remembering the Roman People : Essays on Late-Republican, pages 107–108:
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- satin (= satisne) sanus es?
- are you in your right mind?
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*seh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*séh₂tis
- Proto-Italic[Term?]
- Latinsatisne
Latin -ne Latin satisne From satis (“enough”) + -ne.