Status

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late 18th century (as a legal term meaning ‘legal standing’): from Latin, literally ‘standing’, from stare ‘to stand’.

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From Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.

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status (n.)

1670s, "height" of a situation or condition, later "legal standing of a person" (1791), from Latin status "condition, position, state, manner, attitude," from past participle stem of stare "to stand," from PIE *ste-tu-, from root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm." Sense of "standing in one's society or profession" is from 1820. Status symbol first recorded 1955; status-seeker from 1956. Status-anxiety is from 1959.