stantis

Stantis is a Latin present active participle of the verb sto, stare, meaning “standing.” It denotes the state or action of being in an upright position and functions in Latin as an adjective, and occasionally as a noun in special contexts. As a participle, stantis agrees with the noun it modifies for gender, number, and case, and it is declined according to the patterns of third-declension participles.

In usage, stantis can describe a person, statue, or other object that is in a standing posture. It often appears in phrases where the participle helps convey a specific physical or figurative stance, such as a statue or monument associated with a standing figure. In classic Latin, forms related to stantis appear across the full range of cases and numbers, with stans commonly serving as the nominative singular for masculine or feminine subjects, and stantis functioning in the genitive or other cases depending on the noun it accompanies.

Etymology and formation are straightforward within Latin morphology: it is built from the verb stem stā- (from stō, stāre) plus the present active participle suffix -ns, with inflected endings for person and number. The distinct form stantis is most familiar as the genitive singular (and appears in other case forms as part of the full participle paradigm).

Stantis is primarily encountered in linguistic descriptions of Latin grammar and in textual analysis of classical and post-classical Latin. It is not a separate lexical item with a common everyday meaning outside grammatical discussion.

See also: Latin participles, stō, stāre, Latin adjectives.