consistir

Borrowed from Latin consistere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

consistir (first-person singular present consisteixo, first-person singular preterite consistí, past participle consistit)(intransitive)

1. to consist (en, a of)
   • 1944, Josep Ferrater Mora, Les formes de la vida catalana:

     Per a una altra mena d'homes, en canvi, viure sembla consistir en esborrar el passat, en invalidar-lo, en desfer-lo.

     For another type of man, by contrast, living seems to consist of erasing the pass, invalidating it, destroying it.

• consistència
• consistent

• “consistir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Latin cōnsistō.

consistir (first-person singular present consisto, first-person singular preterite consistín, past participle consistido)
consistir (first-person singular present consisto, first-person singular preterite consistim or consisti, past participle consistido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to consist of

Borrowed from Latin cōnsistere, with change of conjugation.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.siʃˈti(χ)/
• Hyphenation: con‧sis‧tir

consistir (first-person singular present consisto, first-person singular preterite consisti, past participle consistido)

1. to consist of

   A palavra-passe deve consistir em 10 caracteres.

   The password must consist of 10 characters.

From Latin cōnsistō.

• IPA^(key): /konsisˈtiɾ/ [kõn.sisˈt̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: con‧sis‧tir

consistir (first-person singular present consisto, first-person singular preterite consistí, past participle consistido)

1. (intransitive, with en) to consist of

   Una oración consiste en un sujeto y un predicado.

   A sentence consists of a subject and a predicate.

   Escribe libros que enteramente consisten en vulgaridades y tonterías.

   He/She writes books that consist entirely of vulgarities and stupidity.

• “consistir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024