subsisto

Italian

Verb

subsisto

first-person singular present indicative of subsistere

Latin

Etymology

sub- (“below”) +‎ sistō (“I place, I stand”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊpˈsɪs.toː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [subˈsis.t̪o]

Verb

subsistō (present infinitive subsistere, perfect active substitī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

(intransitive) to halt or stop
Synonyms: cessō, sistō, dēsistō, remittō, conticēscō, dēsinō, quiēscō, trānseō

Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō
(transitive) to sustain, support a thing, to be adequate to
Synonyms: sustineō, sustentō, sufferō
- Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1.Q27 a2 Objection 2:
  ‘Sed nullum esse receptum est per se subsistens.’
  ‘‘But no derived existence can be a self sustainer.’’
(transitive) to hold out, withstand, oppose
Synonyms: adversor, obstō, resistō, vetō, officiō, dīvertō, recūsō, restō, repugnō, refrāgor, oppōnō, obversor

Conjugation

Conjugation of subsistō (third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
indicative		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	subsistō		subsistis		subsistit		subsistimus		subsistitis		subsistunt
	imperfect	subsistēbam		subsistēbās		subsistēbat		subsistēbāmus		subsistēbātis		subsistēbant
	future	subsistam		subsistēs		subsistet		subsistēmus		subsistētis		subsistent
	perfect	substitī		substitistī		substitit		substitimus		substitistis		substitērunt, substitēre
	pluperfect	substiteram		substiterās		substiterat		substiterāmus		substiterātis		substiterant
	future perfect	substiterō		substiteris		substiterit		substiterimus		substiteritis		substiterint
subjunctive		singular						plural
subjunctive		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	subsistam		subsistās		subsistat		subsistāmus		subsistātis		subsistant
	imperfect	subsisterem		subsisterēs		subsisteret		subsisterēmus		subsisterētis		subsisterent
	perfect	substiterim		substiterīs		substiterit		substiterīmus		substiterītis		substiterint
	pluperfect	substitissem		substitissēs		substitisset		substitissēmus		substitissētis		substitissent
imperative		singular						plural
imperative		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		subsiste		—		—		subsistite		—
active	future	—		subsistitō		subsistitō		—		subsistitōte		subsistuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
non-finite forms		active			passive			active			passive
present		subsistere			—			subsistēns			—
perfect		substitisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		subsistendī		subsistendō		subsistendum		subsistendō		—		—

Descendants

Catalan: subsistir
English: subsist
French: subsister
Galician: subsistir
Italian: sussistere
Portuguese: subsistir
Sicilian: sussìstiri
Spanish: subsistir

References

“subsisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“subsisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
subsisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to halt: subsistere, consistere
subsisto in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Verb

subsisto

first-person singular present indicative of subsistir

Spanish

Verb

subsisto

first-person singular present indicative of subsistir