"to fit" or "to assent to a proposal."Stare can be an alternative to restare "to stay."Stare is occasionally "to be located." This is very common in the south of Italy for both transient and durable location, but only for durable location in the North. "Sta a Napoli" means "He/she is in Naples" in the South but "He/she lives in Naples" in the North. Like the Spanish quedar, Italian uses rimanere, from Latin (both meaning "to remain"), in the sense of "to be as a result"; e.g. È rimasta incinta = "she became pregnant (as a result)". Sicilian Sicilian copulas The Sicilian copulas developed as follows: → èssere → (es)sere → siri → stare → stariSiri Stari Notes The simple future is no longer in use. The conditional tense of stari has also fallen into disuse. Usage In Sicilian, the meanings and usages of these two copulas are not as broad as in the other languages. Siri is the dominant copula, even more so than in the other Romance languages and is used for almost all cases in which English uses “to be”. Stari has been relegated to only a few common uses:Stari is used in combination with the gerund to form the progressive aspect: = "I am speaking".Stari’s past participle, statu, replaced that of siri and thus statu is used for “been” in all senses.Stari has also replaced all other words meaning, "to reside": = "I live in the United States".Stari, in combination with addritta, is also used to mean, “to stand up”.Stari in combination with the preposition pi can comport two meanings, 1) when followed by a verb it means “about to” or “ready to”: = "I am about to go", "I am leaving"; and 2) in reference to an abbreviation, it means, “to stand for”: «USA» sta pi Stati Uniti di Mèrica = "'USA' stands for United States of America."Stari-cci, most likely an Italianism, is sometimes used to mean, “to fit”: = "does this suit fit me [well]?" (cf. Italian non ci sto 'I don't fit in here/there').Siri is no longer in use as an auxiliary verb. Aviri has completely replaced it in all verbs. Occitan Occitan has just one copula, estre; which is also written èsser, ester, estar in diverse dialects. Estre French Modern French has only one copula. Old French, however, had estre ( → essere → *essre → estre) and ester ( → *estare →