LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

sitis

sitis f sg (genitive sitis)
Classical[ˈsɪ.tɪs]Ecclesiastical[ˈsiː.tis]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. femininesingularthirst

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

quī diū nōn bibit, sitim habet; aqua sitim tollit.
sitis -is f — in Mille Verba, Cibus et Convīvium

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativesitis—
genitivesitis—
dativesitī—
accusativesitim—
ablativesitī—
vocativesitis—

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

sitim colligere
to become thirsty.
famem, sitim explere
to allay one's hunger, thirst.
siti cruciari, premi
to suffer agonies of thirst.
sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water.

sĭtis, is (abl. site, Ven. Carm. 2, 13, 3; acc. sitem, Prud. στεφ. 2, 250), f. etym. dub.; perh. akin with siccus,
I. thirst (class.; used only in sing.).
I. Lit.: demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tenet, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 33; cf.: tibi cum fauces urit sitis, Hor. S. 1, 2, 114: siti sicca sum, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 26: anum interfecero siti fameque atque algu, id. Most. 1, 3, 36; id. Rud. 2, 2, 7; cf.: cum cibo et potione fames sitisque depulsa est, Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37: explere diuturnam sitim, id. Sen. 8, 26; cf.: ut sitim nostro possis explere cruore, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 57: ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora, excited, Verg. G. 3, 327: fessa labore sitim collegerat, had become thirsty, Ov. M. 5, 446: sitim tolerare, Tac. G. 4: exstinguere sitim, Ov. M. 7, 569: restinguere, Verg. E. 5, 47: pellere, Hor. C. 2, 2, 14; Stat. Th. 5, 1: finire, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 146: sedare, Lucr. 2, 663; 4, 850; 5, 945; Ov. M. 3, 415: famem ac sitim sedare, Plin. 11, 53, 119, § 284; Tac. H. 2, 49: levare, Ov. M. 12, 156; 15, 322: relevare, id. ib. 6, 354 al.: compescere, id. ib. 4, 102: deponere, id. ib. 4, 98: defendere fonte, Sil. 7, 170: avertere, id. 8, 572: reprimere, Curt. 7, 5, 7: pomi sitim faciunt, provoke, Plin. 23, 7, 70, § 135: sucus, qui sitim stimulet, id. 23, 7, 67, § 132: sitim adferunt (fici), id. 23, 7, 63, § 121: accendit, id. 11, 2, 1, § 3; Curt. 7, 5, 2: in lassitudine et in siti, Plin. 22, 24, 51, § 111: excessit sitim potio, was more than enough for, Cels. 1, 2: ardere siti, Claud. in Ruf. 1, 104: sitis arida guttur Urit, Ov. M. 11, 129.—
B. Transf., of things (places, plants, etc.), dryness, drought, aridity (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): et Canis arenti torreat arva siti, Tib. 1, 4, 42; Verg. G. 2, 353: deserta siti regio, id. A. 4, 42: haurit sitis ignea campos, Stat. Th. 4, 699: sitis aestatis restinguitur fontibus, i. e. of plants, Col. 11, 3, 9; Plin. 19, 2, 8, § 29 al.—
II. Trop., strong or ardent desire, greediness, thirst: cupiditatis sitis, Cic. Par. 1, 1, 6.—With gen. obj.: libertatis, Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 66: cruoris, Ov. M. 13, 768: argenti sitis importuna famesque, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 23: sitis major famae quam virtutis, Juv. 10, 140: audiendi, Quint. 6, 3, 19.

Origins

From Proto-Italic *(k)sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, destruction, decrease”), from *dʰgʷʰey- (“to decline, perish”), with the Proto-Indo-European cluster *dʰgʷʰ- metathesizing into pre-Italic *gʷʰdʰ-, yielding *kts- and finally Latin s-. Cognates include Sanskrit क्षिति॑ (kṣíti, “perishing, downfall”) and Ancient Greek φθῐ́σῐς (phthĭ́sĭs, “decrease, emaciation”).

Descendants
  • Catalanset
  • Italiansete
  • Occitanset
  • Frenchsoiffrom Old French soif
  • Portuguesesedefrom Old Galician-Portuguese sede
  • Spanishsedfrom Old Spanish sed
  • Romaniansete
  • Sardiniansidi(s)
  • Sardiniansidi(g)u
  • Aromanianseati

Quick answers

What does sitis mean in Latin?
sitis, a noun, means “thirst”.
What is the genitive of sitis?
The genitive singular is sitis. sitis is feminine, third declension.
How do you pronounce sitis?
In classical Latin, [ˈsɪ.tɪs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈsiː.tis].