sustentar
Catalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin sustentāre.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editsustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustentí, past participle sustentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
- (transitive) to sustain (to provide for or nourish)
- (transitive) to sustain (to keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support)
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of sustentar (first conjugation)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “sustentar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sustentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “sustentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sustentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin sustentāre.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧tar
Verb
editsustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustentei, past participle sustentado)
- (transitive) to sustain
- (transitive) to support, underpin
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of sustentar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “sustentar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “sustentar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “sustentar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “sustentar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “sustentar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “sustentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin sustentāre.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editsustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustenté, past participle sustentado)
- (transitive) to sustain, support, underpin (physically)
- (transitive) to sustain, support, hold (i.e. provide resources)
- (transitive, figuratively) to support, underpin, uphold
- (reflexive) to be supported, be underpinned, be sustained
- 2017 May 25, -, “El sagrado derecho de decir que no”, in El Nacional[1]:
- un profesor como ese podría echar por tierra “los principios” sobre los cuales se sustenta el resentimiento encumbrado.
- a teacher like that could overthrow "the principles" on which high resentment is based.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of sustentar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of sustentar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “sustentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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