Etymology

status

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Today it means: A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others. Full definition →

Latin status
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromstatus
  2. English todaystatus

A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).

Words from the same roots

Latinstatus all →

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