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Italian
Verb
subsisto
- first-person singular present indicative of subsistere
Latin
Etymology
sub- (“below”) + sistō (“I place, I stand”).
Pronunciation
Verb
subsistō (present infinitive subsistere, perfect active substitī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- (intransitive) to halt or stop
- Synonyms: cessō, sistō, dēsistō, remittō, conticēscō, dēsinō, quiēscō, trānseō
- Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō
- (transitive) to sustain, support a thing, to be adequate to
- Synonyms: sustineō, sustentō, sufferō
Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologiae 1.Q27 a2 Objection 2:
- ‘Sed nullum esse receptum est per se subsistens.’
- ‘‘But no derived existence can be a self sustainer.’’
- (transitive) to hold out, withstand, oppose
- Synonyms: adversor, obstō, resistō, vetō, officiō, dīvertō, recūsō, restō, repugnō, refrāgor, oppōnō, obversor
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “subsisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subsisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subsisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to halt: subsistere, consistere
- subsisto in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Portuguese
Verb
subsisto
- first-person singular present indicative of subsistir
Spanish
Verb
subsisto
- first-person singular present indicative of subsistir