statūs
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin statūs, the nominative plural form of status (“condition, position, rank”).
Noun[edit]
statūs pl
- (rare) plural of status
- 1991, John Lennard, But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English, page 21:
- The reflexivity is perhaps related to the epistemological-ontological duality which the comparison of lunulae and inverted commas establishes: that the mark both establishes different levels and statūs (plural) of meaning, and signals movement between those levels.
- 2006, Hans J. Vermeer, Luhmann’s “social systems” theory, page 16:
- Analogically we who observe Luhmann’s theory have two statūs²².
²² The ū indicates plural: status (singular) vs. statūs (plural), and so likewise with other Latin words of the so-called u-declension, e.g. nexus vs. nexūs.
- 2016, Epana Medagedara Thejan Jayaneetha Rajapakshe, Network Patterns Of Psychosocial Feelings Expressed On Social Media –Twitter (Bachelors Thesis, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka), page 16:
- 11,598,369 Tweets with statūs (hash tags) named ‘love’, ‘happy’, ‘sad’, and ‘fun’ are extracted from 715,027 individuals (twitter users).
Usage notes[edit]
Some people consider this form to be valid in Latin only, and use status as the plural form.