sustentar
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sustentāre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustentí, past participle sustentat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/
- (transitive) to sustain (to provide for or nourish)
- (transitive) to sustain (to keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of sustentar (first conjugation)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sustentar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sustentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “sustentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sustentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin sustentāre.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧tar
Verb edit
sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustentei, past participle sustentado)
- (transitive) to sustain
- (transitive) to support, underpin
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of sustentar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sustentar” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “sustentar” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “sustentar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “sustentar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “sustentar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “sustentar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sustentāre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustenté, past participle sustentado)
- (transitive) to sustain, support, underpin (physically)
- (transitive) to sustain, support, hold (i.e. provide resources)
- (transitive, figuratively) to support, underpin, uphold
- (reflexive) to be supported, be underpinned, be sustained
- 2017 May 25, -, “El sagrado derecho de decir que no”, in El Nacional[1]:
- un profesor como ese podría echar por tierra “los principios” sobre los cuales se sustenta el resentimiento encumbrado.
- a teacher like that could overthrow "the principles" on which high resentment is based.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of sustentar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of sustentar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sustentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014