soutenir
French
verb
Definitions
- to support
- to keep up
- (used with l) to maintain (that)
- to argue
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French soubtenir inherited from Old French sustenir inherited from Latin *sustenīre, sustinēre.
Origin
Latin
sustinēre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sustain English
- sustainability English
- sustainable English
- sustainer English
- sustainest English
- sustaineth English
- sustainment English
- *sustenīre Latin
- sustineo Latin
- sustineō Latin
- sustinēre Latin
- sustinēre, sustineō Latin
- sostenere Italian
- insoutenable French
- insoutenablement French
- soutenance French
- soutènement French
- sostener Spanish, Castilian
- サスティン Japanese
- サスティーン Japanese
- サステイン Japanese
- susteinen Middle English
- soustenir Old French
- sustenir Old French
- sostenir Catalan, Valencian
- susține Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- soutenir Norman
- soubtenir Middle French
- sostẽer Old Portuguese
- sostener Asturian
- sustenir Ladin