POSITA, posita
Sounds Like: POH-see-tah
Translations: placed, put, laid, set, established, situated, a placed thing
From the root: PONO
Part of Speech: Adjective, Participle
Explanation: POSITA is the feminine singular form of the perfect passive participle of the Latin verb PONO, meaning 'to place' or 'to put'. It describes something that has been placed, set, or laid down. It functions adjectivally, modifying a feminine noun, or can be part of a passive verb construction.
Inflection: Perfect Passive Participle, Feminine, Singular, Nominative or Ablative
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, PONO.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- PONO — put, place, set, lay, establish, build, found, appoint, assign, consider, regard, propose, offer, stake, wager, calm, compose, bury, inter
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