sito

Borrowed from Japanese 生(せい)徒(と) (seito, “student”).

sito

1. student

• mitiliday

Borrowed from English store.

• IPA^(key): /sì.tó/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sɪ̀.tó]

sìtô m (plural sìtô-sìtô, possessed form sìtôn)

1. storeroom

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.to/
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: sì‧to

From Latin situs (“laid, placed”), perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *si-n-H-, n-infix of the root *sey(H)- (“to put”).

sito (feminine sita, masculine plural siti, feminine plural site)

1. (literary) situated, located, lying

From Latin situs (“position”), from a noun use of the perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”).^[2]

sito m (plural siti)

1. site, specifically:
   1. (obsolete) location, position, situation, site

      Synonyms: position, posizione, situazione

   2. (literary) place, site, location

      Synonyms: luogo, posto

   3. (biology) region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place; site
   4. (Internet) website

      Synonyms: sito internet, sito web

From Latin situs (“mold, filthiness”, literally “the state of having been left abandoned”), from a noun use of the perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay”).^[3]

sito m (plural siti)

1. (literary, regional) bad smell, stink

   Synonyms: puzza, puzzo, tanfo

• Isto, Tosi, isto-, osti, tosi

sitō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of situs

sito

1. nominative singular masculine of sita (“white”)
2. nominative singular masculine of sita (“bound”), which is past participle of sinoti (“to bind”)
3. nominative singular masculine of sita (“clinging to”)
4. nominative singular masculine of sita (“sharp”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sìto (“sieve”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *séiˀta, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁y-tom, from *seh₁- (“to impress, insert, sow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕi.tɔ/

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• Rhymes: -itɔ
• Syllabification: si‧to
• Homophone: Sito

sito n (diminutive sitko)

1. sieve
2. (figurative) filter (method of eliminating unsuitable people or things)

• sito in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sito in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sito (“sieve”).

• IPA^(key): /sîto/
• Hyphenation: si‧to

sȉto n (Cyrillic spelling си̏то)

1. sieve

• “sito”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sito (Cyrillic spelling сито)

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of sit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sito.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsitɔ]

sito n

1. sieve

• “sito”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Latin situs, perfect passive participle of sinō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsito/ [ˈsi.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: si‧to

sito (feminine sita, masculine plural sitos, feminine plural sitas)

1. (formal) located, situated

• “sito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• tíos, tosí

• IPA^(key): /s̪i.ˈt̪o/

sito

1. (interrogative) from where, whence?

   naai sito? ― from where did you depart?

2. (interrogative) to where, whereto?

   ni sito? ― where are you going?

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as sitó)