sustento
See also: sustentó
Catalan edit
Verb edit
sustento
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Frequentative verb of sustineō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /susˈten.toː/, [s̠ʊs̠ˈt̪ɛn̪t̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /susˈten.to/, [susˈt̪ɛn̪t̪o]
Verb edit
sustentō (present infinitive sustentāre, perfect active sustentāvī, supine sustentātum); first conjugation
- to uphold, support, prop or sustain, maintain
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.17:
- Extremam famem sustentarent
- They sustained the extreme hunger
- Extremam famem sustentarent
- to maintain or preserve by food, money, or other means
- to keep in check, hold back, restrain
- to bear, endure or hold out, suffer
- to put off, defer, delay
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- French: sustenter
- Italian: sostentare
- Portuguese: sustentar
- Spanish: sustentar
References edit
- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
- to earn a precarious livelihood: vitam inopem sustentare, tolerare
- to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧to
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
sustento m (plural sustentos)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
sustento
Further reading edit
- “sustento” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “sustento” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “sustento” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “sustento” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “sustento” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “sustento” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
sustento m (plural sustentos)
- sustenance
- person's livelihood
- support, help
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
sustento
Further reading edit
- “sustento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish sustento.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sustento (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- alimony; support
- Synonym: suporta
- provision of sustenance or support
- Synonyms: pagsustento, pagsusustento
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sustento”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018