The story
- Latin · derived fromsitus“position, place, site”
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromsite
- Middle English · inherited fromsite
- English todaysite
From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.