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stāvoklis

Pronunciation: [stāːvuoklis]

“stāvoklis” is a Latvian word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. position, location (spacial configuration that exists for some time)
  2. state, condition (present situation, present set of properties of a living being or object)
  3. state, condition (set of properties (position, speed, interaction forces, etc.) at a given time that determine the situation of a physical system)
  4. state, condition, position (social circumstances and relations that define or influence human behavior and action)
  5. state, position, standing, status (place in society, in an organization, in a business sector)
  6. state, situation, condition (set of legal, social, political norms and customs which determine or influence the behavior and actions (of a group, country, etc.)
  7. pregnant

Etymology

Coined by Atis Kronvalds in 1870, from stāv(ēt) (“to stand”) + -oklis, originally to mean simply “place, location,” but later on with wider meanings, including, in the late 1870s, “point of view” (a meaning now ascribed to viedoklis). The use of this word stabilized around the present range of meanings by the end of the 19th century.

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