positus

• postus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ.sɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.s̬i.tus]

Perfect passive participle of pōnō (“to place; to put”).

positus (feminine posita, neuter positum); first/second-declension participle

1. located; placed; situated; arranged
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.674:

     quā positus fuerīs in statiōne, manē

     In whichever station you have been placed, remain [there].
     (The poet invokes the protector of boundary stones, Terminus (god).)

2. ordained
3. put down; set down; set
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.207:

     iūra dabat populīs positō modo praetor arātrō

     The praeter, his plow only recently having been set aside, was giving justice to the peoples.

First/second-declension participle.

From pōnō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

positus m (genitive positūs); fourth declension

1. a position

   Synonym: situs

   • 86 BCE – c. 35 BCE, Sallust, Histories:

     Quom praedixero positum insulae

     After I will have notified about the position of the island

2. a situation, disposition, order, arrangement

Fourth-declension noun.

• positiō

• “positus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “positus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “positus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “positus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "positus", 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)
• “positus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to feel superior to the affairs of life: res humanas infra se positas arbitrari
    
  • the motive, cause, is to be found in..: causa posita est in aliqua re
    
  • extraneous causes: causae extrinsecus allatae (opp. in ipsa re positae)
    
  • on this supposition, hypothesis: hoc posito
    
  • to scale the walls by means of ladders: positis scalis muros ascendere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be favourably situated: opportuno loco situm or positum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to fail to see what lies before one: quod ante pedes est or positum est, non videre
    
  • (ambiguous) to depend upon a thing: positum, situm esse in aliqua re
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in a person's power: in manu, in potestate alicuius situm, positum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid infra se ducere or infra se positum arbitrari
    
  • (ambiguous) it is a matter of conjecture, supposition: aliquid in coniectura positum est
    
  • (ambiguous) we start by presupposing that..: positum est a nobis primum (c. Acc. c. Inf.)
    
  • (ambiguous) to occupy a very high position in the state: in altissimo dignitatis gradu collocatum, locatum, positum esse
    
• Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. Vol. III. p. 772.