sustenance

English

Etymology

From Middle English sustenaunce, from Old French sustenance, from sustenir with the suffix -ance, from Vulgar Latin *sustenire, from Latin sustinere. Compare also Late Latin sustinentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/

• Audio (Southern England)

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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 Proto-Indo-European root *ten-‎ (1 c, 60 e)

• subsistence

Translations

something that provides support or nourishment

• Bengali: রিজিক (bn) (rijik), রুজি (bn) (ruji), জীবিকা (bn) (jibika)
• Bulgarian: препитание (bg) n (prepitanie), издръжка (bg) f (izdrǎžka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 维持生计

• Finnish: ylläpito (fi)
• Galician: mantenza (gl) f
• German: Nahrung (de) f, Verpflegung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: διατροφή f (diatrophḗ)

• Hebrew: פַּרְנָסָה (he)
• Icelandic: viðurværi n, fæði n, matur (is) m, næring (is) 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