scitus

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

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

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”)

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

1. searched, questioned, inquired, having been searched
2. approved, appointed, enacted, decreed, having been appointed
3. (middle voice) showing knowledge, knowing, wise, shrewd, experienced, skilful
4. (middle voice) fit, suitable, proper, sensible
5. (middle voice) (figuratively) beautiful, elegant, fine, attractive

• Sometimes the middle voice meanings take objects in the genitive case or object clauses.

First/second-declension adjective.

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.

• “scitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "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)
• “scitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.