consto
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Pronunciation
Verb
consto
- first-person singular present indicative of constar
Italian
Verb
consto
- first-person singular present indicative of constare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *komstaēō. Equivalent to con- (“together”) + stō (“stand”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkõː.stoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔn.st̪o]
Verb
cōnstō (present infinitive cōnstāre, perfect active cōnstitī, supine cōnstātum); first conjugation, no passive
- to stand together
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.28:
- In foro ac locis patentioribus [...] constiterunt
- They stood together in the marketplace and the more open places
- In foro ac locis patentioribus [...] constiterunt
- to stand still; to remain the same; stand firm
- to agree, correspond, fit
- Synonyms: concordō, condīcō, conveniō, cōnsentiō, assentiō, concurrō, congruō, pangō
- Antonyms: dissentiō, dissideō, discordō, variō, abhorreō
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.4:
- Fatēbor ingenuē: quod apud luxuriōsum sed dīligentem ēvenit, ratiō mihi cōnstat impēnsae.
- I will admit candidly: just as it happens with [anyone who is] self-indulgent but careful, the reckoning for me corresponds [with my] expenses.
(Seneca writes with playful irony that his own use of time is a big expense tallied against the finite account that is his life.)
- I will admit candidly: just as it happens with [anyone who is] self-indulgent but careful, the reckoning for me corresponds [with my] expenses.
- Fatēbor ingenuē: quod apud luxuriōsum sed dīligentem ēvenit, ratiō mihi cōnstat impēnsae.
- to be certain, decided, consistent
- (sometimes impersonal) to be established, well known, understood, clear
- c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.17.40:
- Quae cum constent, perspicuum debet esse animos, cum e corpore excesserint, sive illi sint animales, id est, spirabiles, sive ignei, sublime ferri.
- Translation by Charles Duke Yonge
- it must evidently follow that souls, when once they have departed from the body, whether they are animal (by which term I mean capable of breathing) or of the nature of fire, must mount upward.
- Translation by Charles Duke Yonge
- Quae cum constent, perspicuum debet esse animos, cum e corpore excesserint, sive illi sint animales, id est, spirabiles, sive ignei, sublime ferri.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 4.29:
- quod omnibus constabat hiemari in Gallia oportere
- It was clear to everyone that the army ought to winder in Gaul.
- quod omnibus constabat hiemari in Gallia oportere
- to consist, to be composed of
- to cost (with ablative)
- Multō sanguine victōria nōbīs cōnstitit.
- The victory cost us much blood.
- Quantī cōnstat?
- How much does it cost?
Conjugation
Conjugation of cōnstō (first conjugation, no passive)
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- “consto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “consto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- consto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
- to be composed of; to consist of: constare ex aliqua re
- it is a recognised fact: inter omnes constat
- I have not made up my mind: mihi non constat (with indirect question)
- to contradict oneself, be inconsistent: a se dissidere or sibi non constare (of persons)
- to compose oneself with difficulty: mente vix constare (Tusc. 4. 17. 39)
- to be consistent: sibi constare, constantem esse
- a thing costs much, little: aliquid magno, parvo stat, constat
- a thing costs nothing: aliquid nihilo or gratis constat
- the accounts balance: ratio alicuius rei constat (convenit, par est)
- I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
Portuguese
Verb
consto
- first-person singular present indicative of constar
Spanish
Verb
consto
- first-person singular present indicative of constar