scitus

Perfect passive participle of sciō (“to know”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈʃiː.tus]

scītus (feminine scīta, neuter scītum); first/second-declension participle

1. learnt; ascertained; known; having been ascertained

First/second-declension adjective.

Perfect passive participle of scīscō (“to inquire; approve, appoint; learn”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈʃiː.tus]

scītus (feminine scīta, neuter scītum); first/second-declension participle

1. searched, questioned, inquired, having been searched
2. approved, appointed, enacted, decreed, having been appointed

First/second-declension adjective.

scītus (feminine scīta, neuter scītum, comparative scītior, superlative scītissimus, adverb scitē); first/second-declension adjective

1. showing knowledge, knowing, wise, shrewd, experienced, skilful
2. fit, suitable, proper, sensible
3. (figuratively) beautiful, elegant, fine, attractive

• Sometimes takes objects in the genitive case or object clauses.

First/second-declension adjective.

From scīscō + -tus (forming action nouns).

• scītus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskiː.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈʃiː.tus]
• scītūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskiː.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈʃiː.tus]

scītus m (genitive scītūs); fourth declension

1. (law) statute; ordinance; decree; edict (a law passed by a governing body)

   Synonyms: scītum, praeceptum, iussus, ēdictum, ēdictiō, nūntius, dēcrētum, dēcrētiō, mandātum, imperium

Fourth-declension noun.

• “scītus, -a, -um (scīscō)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scītus, -a, -um (scīscō)”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scītus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scītus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scītus, -a, -um (sciō) / scītus, -a, -um (scīscō) / scītŭs, -ūs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "scitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)