statusyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[status 词源字典]
status: see state
[status etymology, status origin, 英语词源]
status (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
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" (see stet). 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.