satis

See also: Satis, satış, and ŝatis

English

Etymology

Clipping of satisfy. Enhanced by ancestral Latin satis.

Adjective

satis (comparative more satis, superlative most satis)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of satisfied.

Verb

satis

1. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) Clipping of satisfy.

Anagrams

• Stais, Stasi, Tassi, Tissa, Tsais, saist, sista, tasis

Esperanto

Verb

satis

1. past of sati

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *sh₂tis (“satiation, satisfaction”), from *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognates include Sanskrit असिन्व (asinva, “insatiable”), Ancient Greek ἄω (áō, “to satiate”) and Old English sæd (“full, sated”) (English sad).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.tis/, [ˈs̠ät̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.tis/, [ˈsäːt̪is]

Adjective

satis (indeclinable)

1. adequate, enough, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient
2. filled, satisfied

Adverb

satis (not comparable)

1. adequately, sufficiently

   Synonyms: sat, affatim

   Antonym: parum

Derived terms

• satisne, satine, satin
• sat agō, satis agō, satagō
• satis faciō, satisfaciō
• satiās
• satiēs
• satietās
• satiō
• satispassiō (Mediaeval Latin, theology)
• satius
• satur

Descendants

• ⇒ Medieval Latin: ad satis (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *satius (noun)
  • Italian: sazio
  • Romanian: saț

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.tiːs/, [ˈs̠ät̪iːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.tis/, [ˈsäːt̪is]

Participle

satīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of satus

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.tiːs/, [ˈs̠ät̪iːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.tis/, [ˈsäːt̪is]

Noun

satīs

1. dative/ablative plural of sata

References

• “satis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “satis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• satis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• satis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • after a fairly long interval: satis longo intervallo
    
  • I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
    
  • I am content to..: satis habeo, satis mihi est c. Inf.
    
  • to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
    
  • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum est
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 540