# sustentar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sustentāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [sus.tənˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [sus.tenˈtaɾ]

### Verb

sustentar (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)

#### Derived terms

* sustentador

#### Related terms

* sostenir
* sustentable
* sustentació
* sustentacle

### Further reading

* “sustentar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “sustentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sustentāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /sus.tẽˈta(ʁ)/ [sus.tẽˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /sus.tẽˈta(ʁ)/ [sus.tẽˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /sus.tẽˈta(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /suʃ.tẽˈta(ʁ)/ [suʃ.tẽˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /sus.tẽˈta(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /suʃ.tẽˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /suʃ.tẽˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /suʃ.tẽˈta.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧tar

### Verb

sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustentei, past participle sustentado)
* (transitive) to sustain
* (transitive) to support, underpin

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* suster

### Further reading

* “sustentar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “sustentar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “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, 2003–2025
* “sustentar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “sustentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sustentāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sustenˈtaɾ/ [sus.t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: sus‧ten‧tar

### Verb

sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustenté, past participle sustentado)
* (transitive) to sustain, support, underpin (physically)
    Synonym: sostener
* (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: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

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* sustentable
* sustentador
* sustento

#### Related terms

* sostener

### Further reading

* “sustentar”, 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