# sisto
## Galician
### Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Celtic (compare Proto-Celtic *sistati, "put, stand"), or either from Latin sextus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsistʊ]

### Noun

sisto m (plural sistos)
* (archaic) aim, target
    Synonym: fito
** 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 350:Et caualgarõ todos juntos et chegárõsse ao torneo, et touerõ ben o sseu sisto, et começarõ todos de cõssún a tirar de seus arcos et dar moy grãdes braados, ca atal era seu costume.And they rode all together and came to the tournament, and they secured their aim, and began to shoot from their bows all at the same time and to give very large shouts, because that was their custom

#### Derived terms

* asestar
* sistar

#### Related terms

* Sisto

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sisto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sisto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “assestar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sistō, from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”). Related to stō (“stand, be stood”), from the same root, with which sistō shares its supine forms.
Cognates include Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi) and Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tíṣṭhati).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsis.toː/, [ˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsis.to/, [ˈsist̪o]

### Verb

sistō (present infinitive sistere, perfect active stitī, supine statum); third conjugation
* (transitive) to cause to stand; to set; to place
    Synonyms: collocō, loco, statuō, pōnō, fīgō, cōnstituō, struō, impōnō, defigo
* (transitive) to stop, to halt
    Synonyms: resistō, retineō, prohibeō, impediō, intersaepio, cohibeō, arceō, teneō, obsto, adversor, exclūdō
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti VI.154:Sistite vōs lacrimās.Halt your tears.
* (intransitive) to place oneself; to stand
    Synonyms: cōnstō, stō, cōnsistō, remaneō, maneō, haereō
* to stabilise, consolidate, strengthen, reinforce
    Synonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, cōnsolidō, fulciō, fortificō
    Antonyms: dēterō, atterō, minuō, frangō, tenuō, afficiō
* (transitive, law) to cause to appear in court
* (intransitive, law) to appear in court
* (intransitive) to stop, to stand still; to halt; to stand firm
    Synonyms: cessō, subsistō, dēsistō, remittō, dēsinō, quiēscō, conticēscō, trānseō
    Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō
    Siste! ― Stop!

#### Conjugation

* Perfects of the form stetī for this verb are considered doubtful.

#### Derived terms

* absistō
* assistō
* circumsistō
* cōnsistō
* dēsistō
* existō, exsistō
* īnsistō
* obsistō
* persistō
* resistō
* subsistō
* armistitium
* iūstitium
* solstitium

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: sista
* → German: sistieren

### References

* “sisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* sisto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* sisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to halt: gradum sistere

## Latvian
### Participle

sisto
* inflection of sistais:
** vocative/accusative/instrumental singular masculine/feminine
** genitive plural masculine/feminine