sustenance

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French, from sustenir (14c) with the suffix -ance, from Vulgar Latin *sustenire, from Latin sustinere. Cf. also Late Latin sustinentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/

Noun

sustenance (countable and uncountable, plural sustenances)

1. Something that provides support or nourishment.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

Related terms

► English terms derived from the PIE root *ten-‎ (0 c, 45 e)

• subsistence

Translations

something that provides support or nourishment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 维持生计

• Finnish: ylläpito (fi)
• German: Nahrung (de) f, Verpflegung (de) f
• Icelandic: viðurværi n, fæði n, matur (is) m, næring f
• Irish: cothabháil f
• Latin: pābulum n

• Maori: manapou
• Nahuatl: itaca
• Navajo: yistʼéí
• Russian: пропита́ние (ru) n (propitánije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀дршка f, по̏тпора f

  Roman: pòdrška (sh) f, pȍtpora (sh) f