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Latin
Etymology
From ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”), caus. of stare (“to stand”); see stand.
Pronunciation
Verb
exsistō (present infinitive exsistere, perfect active exstitī, supine exstitum); third conjugation, no passive
- to be, exist
- to appear, arise, emerge
- Synonym: appāreō
- to become
- Synonym: fīō
- (in the third-person) there is, there are
- to stand out (as), to stand out in regard to (+ dative)
- to be manifest, to be apparent or appear
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References
- “exsisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exsisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exsisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- at this point the question arises: hoc loco exsistit quaestio, quaeritur
- to summon some one from the dead: aliquem ab inferis or a mortuis evocare, excitare (passive ab inferis exsistere)
- exsisto in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016