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Galician
Verb
consisto
- first-person singular present indicative of consistir
Italian
Verb
consisto
- first-person singular present indicative of consistere
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From con- (“together”) + sistō (“I cause to stand, stand”).
Pronunciation
Verb
cōnsistō (present infinitive cōnsistere, perfect active cōnstitī, supine cōnstitum); third conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- to stop, stand, halt
- Synonyms: cōnstō, stō, sistō, remaneō, maneō, haereō
- to pause, linger
- Synonyms: moror, habitō
- to harden
- to agree with
- Synonyms: concordo, consentio
- to depend on
- Synonym: suspendō
- to continue, endure, subsist
- Synonyms: maneō, dūrō, obdūrō
- to exist
- Synonyms: adsum, sum, remaneo, maneo
- Antonyms: absum, desum
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References
- “consisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “consisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- consisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to depend upon a thing: consistere in aliqua re
- to be calm, self-possessed: mente consistere
- to halt: subsistere, consistere
- to take up one's position on a mountain: consistere in monte
- to form a square: in orbem consistere
- to ride at anchor: ad ancoram consistere
- to ride at anchor: in ancoris esse, stare, consistere
Portuguese
Verb
consisto
- first-person singular present indicative of consistir
Spanish
Verb
consisto
- first-person singular present indicative of consistir