'Position' is the keystone of the '-pose/-posit' family — preserving the Latin stem French verbs disguise.
A place or location occupied by someone or something; the way in which something is arranged or oriented; a person's opinion or stance on an issue; a job or role.
From Old French 'posicion' (situation, place), from Latin 'positiōnem' (nominative 'positiō'), meaning 'act of placing, situation, position,' the noun of action from 'positum,' the past participle of 'pōnere' (to put, to place). Unlike the '-pose' verbs that passed through French verbal remodeling, 'position' comes directly from the Latin participial noun and preserves the original 'posit-' stem intact. The word thus serves
The grammatical term 'preposition' is literally a 'pre-position' — a word 'placed before' its object (in, on, at, by). Latin grammarians translated the Greek 'próthesis' (a placing before) into Latin as 'praepositiō,' making it one of the oldest technical applications of the pōnere/positum root still in daily use.