sisto

See also: Sisto

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Celtic (compare Proto-Celtic *sistati, "put, stand"), or either from Latin sextus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsistʊ]

Noun

sisto m (plural sistos)

1. (archaic) aim, target
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 350:

     Et caualgarõ todos juntos et chegárõsse ao torneo, et touerõ ben o sseu sisto, et começarõ todos de cõssún a tirar de seus arcos et dar moy grãdes braados, ca atal era seu costume.

     And they rode all together and came to the tournament, and they secured their aim, and began to shoot from their bows all at the same time and to give very large shouts, because that was their custom

   Synonym: fito

Derived terms

• asestar
• sistar

Related terms

• Sisto

References

• “sisto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “sisto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sistō, from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”). Related to stō (“stand, be stood”), from the same root, with which sistō shares its supine forms.

Cognates include Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi) and Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tíṣṭhati).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsis.toː/, [ˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsis.to/, [ˈsist̪o]

Verb

sistō (present infinitive sistere, perfect active stitī, supine statum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) I cause to stand; I set; I place.

   Synonyms: collocō, loco, statuō, pōnō, fīgō, cōnstituō, struō, impōnō, defigo

2. (transitive) I stop, I halt

   Synonyms: resistō, retineō, prohibeō, impediō, intersaepio, cohibeō, arceō, teneō, obsto, adversor, exclūdō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti VI.154:

     Sistite vōs lacrimās.

     Halt your tears.

3. (intransitive) I place myself; I stand

   Synonyms: cōnstō, stō, cōnsistō, remaneō, maneō, haereō

4. I stabilise, consolidate, strengthen, reinforce.

   Synonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, cōnsolidō, fortificō

   Antonyms: dēterō, atterō, minuō, frangō, tenuō, afficiō

5. (transitive, law) I cause to appear in court.
6. (intransitive, law) I appear in court.
7. (intransitive) I stop, I stand still; I halt; I stand firm.

   Synonyms: cessō, subsistō, dēsistō, remittō, dēsinō, quiēscō, conticēscō, trānseō

   Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō

   Siste! ― Stop!

Conjugation

• Perfects of the form stetī for this verb are considered doubtful.

Conjugation of sistō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	sistō	sistis	sistit	sistimus	sistitis	sistunt
	imperfect	sistēbam	sistēbās	sistēbat	sistēbāmus	sistēbātis	sistēbant
	future	sistam	sistēs	sistet	sistēmus	sistētis	sistent
	perfect	stitī	stitistī	stitit	stitimus	stitistis	stitērunt, stitēre
	pluperfect	stiteram	stiterās	stiterat	stiterāmus	stiterātis	stiterant
	future perfect	stiterō	stiteris	stiterit	stiterimus	stiteritis	stiterint
passive	present	sistor	sisteris, sistere	sistitur	sistimur	sistiminī	sistuntur
	imperfect	sistēbar	sistēbāris, sistēbāre	sistēbātur	sistēbāmur	sistēbāminī	sistēbantur
	future	sistar	sistēris, sistēre	sistētur	sistēmur	sistēminī	sistentur
	perfect	status + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	status + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	status + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	sistam	sistās	sistat	sistāmus	sistātis	sistant
	imperfect	sisterem	sisterēs	sisteret	sisterēmus	sisterētis	sisterent
	perfect	stiterim	stiterīs	stiterit	stiterīmus	stiterītis	stiterint
	pluperfect	stitissem	stitissēs	stitisset	stitissēmus	stitissētis	stitissent
passive	present	sistar	sistāris, sistāre	sistātur	sistāmur	sistāminī	sistantur
	imperfect	sisterer	sisterēris, sisterēre	sisterētur	sisterēmur	sisterēminī	sisterentur
	perfect	status + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	status + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	siste	—	—	sistite	—
	future	—	sistitō	sistitō	—	sistitōte	sistuntō
passive	present	—	sistere	—	—	sistiminī	—
	future	—	sistitor	sistitor	—	—	sistuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		sistere	stitisse	statūrum esse	sistī	statum esse	statum īrī
participles		sistēns	—	statūrus	—	status	sistendus, sistundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		sistendī	sistendō	sistendum	sistendō	statum	statū

Derived terms

• absistō
• armistitium
• assistō
• circumsistō
• cōnsistō
• dēsistō
• existō, exsistō
• īnsistō
• iūstitium
• obsistō
• persistō
• resistō
• solstitium
• subsistō

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: sista
• → German: sistieren

References

• “sisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sisto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• sisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to halt: gradum sistere
    

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Latvian

Participle

sisto

1. vocative singular masculine form of sistais
2. accusative singular masculine form of sistais
3. instrumental singular masculine form of sistais
4. genitive plural masculine form of sistais
5. vocative singular feminine form of sistais
6. accusative singular feminine form of sistais
7. instrumental singular feminine form of sistais
8. genitive plural feminine form of sistais