STATE

- Political organization of a country🔍 ; supreme civil power, government; the whole

        people as body politic, OR  a semi-independent political entity under a federal 🔍  

authority

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        Old French estat, Latin status = station, position; posture; order, arrangement, condition

(figuratively: standing, rank; public order, community organization)  [PIE🔍 root sta =

to stand, make or be firm]

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    The specific use in the geopolitical sense evolved out of the meaning: condition of a country

with regard to prosperity, from Latin phrases such as status rei publicæ = condition (existence)

of the republic 🔍  to then refer to the republic itself, later developing 2nd meaning of a sub

division of federated republic.​​​