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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sustentātiōnem.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧ta‧ção
Noun
sustentação f (plural sustentações)
- sustentation; sustainment (act of sustaining)
- lift (upward force that keeps aircraft aloft)
- support
Further reading
- “sustentação” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913