<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up state, estate, or status in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up state, estate, or status in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> The word state and its cognates in some other European languages (stato in Italian, estado in Spanish and Portuguese, état in French, Staat in German) ultimately derive from the Latin word status, meaning "condition, circumstances". </P> <P> The English noun state in the generic sense "condition, circumstances" predates the political sense . It is introduced to Middle English c. 1200 both from Old French and directly from Latin . </P>

From which latin word is the term state originated