sisto

Unknown. Perhaps from Celtic (compare Proto-Celtic *sistati, "put, stand"), or either from Latin sextus.

• IPA^(key):

sisto m (plural sistos)

1. (archaic) aim, target

   Synonym: fito

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 350:

     Et caualgarõ todos juntos et chegárõsse ao torneo, et touerõ ben o sseu sisto, et começarõ todos de cõssún a tirar de seus arcos et dar moy grãdes braados, ca atal era seu costume.

     And they rode all together and came to the tournament, and they secured their aim, and began to shoot from their bows all at the same time and to give very large shouts, because that was their custom

• asestar
• sistar

• Sisto

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sisto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sisto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Proto-Italic *sistō, from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”). Related to stō (“stand, be stood”), from the same root, with which sistō shares its supine forms.

Cognates include Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi) and Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tíṣṭhati).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

sistō (present infinitive sistere, perfect active stitī, supine statum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to cause to stand; to set; to place

   Synonyms: collocō, loco, statuō, pōnō, fīgō, cōnstituō, struō, impōnō, defigo

2. (transitive) to stop, to halt

   Synonyms: resistō, retineō, prohibeō, impediō, intersaepio, cohibeō, arceō, teneō, obsto, adversor, exclūdō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti VI.154:

     Sistite vōs lacrimās.

     Halt your tears.

3. (intransitive) to place oneself; to stand

   Synonyms: cōnstō, stō, cōnsistō, remaneō, maneō, haereō

4. to stabilise, consolidate, strengthen, reinforce

   Synonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, cōnsolidō, fulciō, fortificō

   Antonyms: dēterō, atterō, minuō, frangō, tenuō, afficiō

5. (transitive, law) to cause to appear in court
6. (intransitive, law) to appear in court
7. (intransitive) to stop, to stand still; to halt; to stand firm

   Synonyms: cessō, subsistō, dēsistō, remittō, dēsinō, quiēscō, conticēscō, trānseō

   Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō

   Siste! ― Stop!

• Perfects of the form stetī for this verb are considered doubtful.

• → Romanian: sista
• → German: sistieren

• “sisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sisto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• sisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to halt: gradum sistere
    

sisto

1. inflection of sistais:
   1. vocative/accusative/instrumental singular masculine/feminine
   2. genitive plural masculine/feminine