mantenir

Inherited from Old Catalan mantenir, from Vulgar Latin *mantenīre, infinitive of *manteniō (“to support”), variant of Late Latin manuteneō, corresponding to Latin manū (“with the hand”) + teneō (“to hold”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mən.təˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [man.teˈniɾ]

mantenir (first-person singular present mantinc, first-person singular preterite mantinguí, past participle mantingut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to maintain; to uphold; to keep going

• manteniment

• “mantenir”, 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
• “mantenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “mantenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mantenir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

mantenir

1. past infinitive of mantenar

From Vulgar Latin *mantenīre, infinitive of *manteniō (“I support”), variant of Late Latin manuteneō, corresponding to Latin manū (“with the hand”) + teneō (“I hold”).

mantenir

1. To maintain

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.