sustentar

Borrowed from Latin sustentāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustentí, past participle sustentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to sustain (to provide for or nourish)
2. (transitive) to sustain (to keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support)

• sustentador

• “sustentar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sustentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sustentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sustentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin sustentāre.

• Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧tar

sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustentei, past participle sustentado)

1. (transitive) to sustain
2. (transitive) to support, underpin

• suster

• “sustentar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “sustentar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “sustentar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “sustentar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “sustentar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “sustentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Latin sustentāre.

• IPA^(key): /sustenˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sus‧ten‧tar

sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustenté, past participle sustentado)

1. (transitive) to sustain, support, underpin (physically)
2. (transitive) to sustain, support, hold (i.e. provide resources)
3. (transitive, figuratively) to support, underpin, uphold
4. (reflexive) to be supported, be underpinned, be sustained
   • 2017 May 25, -, “El sagrado derecho de decir que no”, in El Nacional‎:

     un profesor como ese podría echar por tierra “los principios” sobre los cuales se sustenta el resentimiento encumbrado.

     a teacher like that could overthrow "the principles" on which high resentment is based.

• “sustentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10