sustento

sustento

1. first-person singular present indicative of sustentar

Frequentative verb of sustineō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊsˈtɛn.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [susˈt̪ɛn̪.t̪o]

sustentō (present infinitive sustentāre, perfect active sustentāvī, supine sustentātum); first conjugation

1. to uphold, support, prop or sustain, maintain

   Synonyms: subsistō, sufferō, sustineō, teneō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.17:

     Extremam famem sustentarent

     They sustained the extreme hunger

2. to maintain or preserve by food, money, or other means

   Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, alō, pāscō, pāscor, foveō

3. to keep in check, hold back, restrain

   Synonyms: inclūdō, interclūdō, intersaepiō, obstō, refrēnō, impediō, perimō, officiō, saepiō, coerceō, premō, reprimō, comprimō

   Antonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō

4. to bear, endure or hold out, suffer

   Synonyms: tolerō, patiō, sufferō, subeō, perferō, perpetior, recipiō, accipiō, sinō, ferō, dūrō, sustineō

5. to put off, defer, delay

   Synonyms: retardō, moror, cū̆nctor, tardō, trahō, dubitō, extrahō

   Antonyms: ruō, accurrō, currō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, mātūrō

• sustentāculum
• sustentātiō

• “sustento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sustento”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sustento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare
    
  • to earn a precarious livelihood: vitam inopem sustentare, tolerare
    

• Rhymes: -ẽtu

• Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧to

Deverbal from sustentar.

sustento m (plural sustentos)

1. sustenance, support

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sustento

1. first-person singular present indicative of sustentar

• “sustento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “sustento”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “sustento” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “sustento”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “sustento”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “sustento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /susˈtento/ [susˈt̪ẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: sus‧ten‧to

Deverbal from sustentar.

sustento m (plural sustentos)

1. sustenance
2. person's livelihood
3. support, help

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sustento

1. first-person singular present indicative of sustentar

• “sustento”, 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

Borrowed from Spanish sustento.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /susˈtento/ [sʊsˈt̪ɛn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: sus‧ten‧to

sustento (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. alimony; support

   Synonym: suporta

2. provision of sustenance or support

   Synonyms: pagsustento, pagsusustento

• “sustento”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018