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Catalan
Verb
sustento
- first-person singular present indicative of sustentar
Latin
Etymology
Frequentative verb of sustineō.
Pronunciation
Verb
sustentō (present infinitive sustentāre, perfect active sustentāvī, supine sustentātum); first conjugation
- to uphold, support, prop or sustain, maintain
- Synonyms: subsistō, sufferō, sustineō, teneō
- to maintain or preserve by food, money, or other means
- Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, alō, pāscō, pāscor, foveō
- to keep in check, hold back, restrain
- Synonyms: inclūdō, interclūdō, intersaepiō, obstō, refrēnō, impediō, perimō, officiō, saepiō, coerceō, premō, reprimō, comprimō
- Antonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō
- to bear, endure or hold out, suffer
- Synonyms: tolerō, patiō, sufferō, subeō, perferō, perpetior, recipiō, accipiō, sinō, ferō, dūrō, sustineō
- to put off, defer, delay
- Synonyms: retardō, moror, cūnctor, tardō, trahō, dubitō, extrahō
- Antonyms: ruō, accurrō, currō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, mātūrō
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “sustento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sustento”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sustento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
- to earn a precarious livelihood: vitam inopem sustentare, tolerare
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Deverbal from sustentar.
Noun
sustento m (plural sustentos)
- sustenance, support
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
sustento
- first-person singular present indicative of sustentar
Further reading
- “sustento”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “sustento”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “sustento” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “sustento”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “sustento”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “sustento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /susˈtento/
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: sus‧ten‧to
Etymology 1
Deverbal from sustentar.
Noun
sustento m (plural sustentos)
- sustenance
- person's livelihood
- support, help
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
sustento
- first-person singular present indicative of sustentar
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish sustento.
Pronunciation
Noun
sustento (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- alimony; support
- Synonym: suporta
- provision of sustenance or support
- Synonyms: pagsustento, pagsusustento
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sustento”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018