stacioun

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stasion, station, stacyon, stacion

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“outpost”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staːsiˈuːn/, /staːˈsjuːn/, /ˈstaːsiun/, /ˈstaːsjun/

Noun

stacioun (plural staciouns)

1. One's station; one's normal place of occupation.
2. The place where something is set or implanted.
3. A holy site (Christian or pagan).
4. (astronomy) The (seeming) fixedness of a planet or the Sun.
5. A special ecclesiastical service.
6. (rare) One of a set of locations which (people, things) rotate around; a stop.

Descendants

• English: station
  • → Cebuano: estasyon
  • → Hindi: स्टेशन (sṭeśan)
  • → Irish: stáisiún
  • → Malay: stesen
  • → Punjabi: سٹیشن/ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ (sṭeśan)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: stèisean
  • → Swahili: stesheni
  • → Urdu: سْٹیشَن (sṭeśan), اِسْٹیشَن (isṭeśan)
• Scots: station

References

• “stāciǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.