# sustento
## Catalan
### Verb

sustento
* first-person singular present indicative of sustentar

## Latin
### Etymology

Frequentative verb of sustineō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /susˈten.toː/, [s̠ʊs̠ˈt̪ɛn̪t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /susˈten.to/, [susˈt̪ɛn̪t̪o]

### Verb

sustentō (present infinitive sustentāre, perfect active sustentāvī, supine sustentātum); first conjugation
* 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 sustentarentThey sustained the extreme hunger
* to maintain or preserve by food, money, or other means
    Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, alō, pāscō, pāscor, foveō
* 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
* to bear, endure or hold out, suffer
    Synonyms: tolerō, patiō, sufferō, subeō, perferō, perpetior, recipiō, accipiō, sinō, ferō, dūrō, sustineō
* to put off, defer, delay
    Synonyms: retardō, moror, cūnctor, tardō, trahō, dubitō, extrahō
    Antonyms: ruō, accurrō, currō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, mātūrō

#### Derived terms

* sustentāculum
* sustentātiō

#### Descendants

* French: sustenter
* Italian: sostentare
* Portuguese: sustentar
* Spanish: sustentar

### References

* “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, London: Macmillan and Co. to endure the pangs of hunger: famem tolerare, sustentare to earn a precarious livelihood: vitam inopem sustentare, tolerare

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /susˈtẽ.tu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /susˈtẽ.tu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /suʃˈtẽ.tu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /susˈtẽ.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /suʃˈtẽ.tu/
* Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧to

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from sustentar.

#### Noun

sustento m (plural sustentos)
* sustenance, support

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sustento
* first-person singular present indicative of sustentar

### Further reading

* “sustento”, in iDicionário Aulete (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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /susˈtento/ [susˈt̪ẽn̪.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ento
* Syllabification: sus‧ten‧to

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from sustentar.

#### Noun

sustento m (plural sustentos)
* sustenance
* person's livelihood
* support, help

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sustento
* first-person singular present indicative of sustentar

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sustento.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

sustento (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
* alimony; support
    Synonym: suporta
* provision of sustenance or support
    Synonyms: pagsustento, pagsusustento

#### Derived terms

* magsustento
* pagsustento
* pagsusustento
* sumustento
* sustentuhan

### Further reading

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