sitesite

Site comes from Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs ‘position, place’, from sinō ‘to put, set down’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱey-¹‘to build’reconstructed
2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱinéti¹reconstructed
3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sinō¹‘to put in place’reconstructed
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsinō²as sinere‘to put, lay, set down’
5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsitus²‘position, place, site’
6. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400site²
7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500site²‘site, location’
8. Englishearliest quotation 1716site²

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin sino
2. ² Wiktionary, English site
3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament: “The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site,…”.