subsisto

Italian

Verb

subsisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of subsistere

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /subˈsis.toː/, [s̠ʊpˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /subˈsis.to/, [subˈsist̪o]

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) to halt or stop

   Synonyms: cessō, sistō, dēsistō, remittō, conticēscō, dēsinō, quiēscō, trānseō

   Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō

2. (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.’’

3. (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 supine stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		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
		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
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	subsiste	—	—	subsistite	—
	future	—	subsistitō	subsistitō	—	subsistitōte	subsistuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		subsistere	substitisse	—	—	—	—
participles		subsistēns	—	—	—	—	—
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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Verb

subsisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of subsistir

Spanish

Verb

subsisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of subsistir