consisto

Galician

Verb

consisto

first-person singular present indicative of consistir

Italian

Verb

consisto

first-person singular present indicative of consistere

Anagrams

scostino

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti

Proto-Italic *sistō

Latin sistō

Latin cōnsistō

From con- + sistō (“to cause to stand; to stand”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈsɪs.toː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈsis.to]

Verb

cōnsistō (present infinitive cōnsistere, perfect active cōnstitī, supine cōnstitum); third conjugation, impersonal in the passive

to stop, stand, halt
Synonyms: cōnstō, stō, sistō, remaneō, maneō, haereō
to pause, linger
Synonyms: moror, habitō
to harden
to agree with
Synonyms: concordo, consentio
to depend on
Synonym: suspendō
to continue, endure, subsist
Synonyms: maneō, dūrō, obdūrō
to exist
Synonyms: adsum, sum, remaneo, maneo

Antonyms: absum, desum

Conjugation

Conjugation of cōnsistō (third conjugation, impersonal in the passive)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	cōnsistō	cōnsistis		cōnsistit	cōnsistimus	cōnsistitis		cōnsistunt
	imperfect	cōnsistēbam	cōnsistēbās		cōnsistēbat	cōnsistēbāmus	cōnsistēbātis		cōnsistēbant
	future	cōnsistam	cōnsistēs		cōnsistet	cōnsistēmus	cōnsistētis		cōnsistent
	perfect	cōnstitī	cōnstitistī		cōnstitit	cōnstitimus	cōnstitistis		cōnstitērunt, cōnstitēre
	pluperfect	cōnstiteram	cōnstiterās		cōnstiterat	cōnstiterāmus	cōnstiterātis		cōnstiterant
	future perfect	cōnstiterō	cōnstiteris		cōnstiterit	cōnstiterimus	cōnstiteritis		cōnstiterint
passive	present	—	—		cōnsistitur	—	—		—
	imperfect	—	—		cōnsistēbātur	—	—		—
	future	—	—		cōnsistētur	—	—		—
	perfect	—	—		cōnstitum est	—	—		—
	pluperfect	—	—		cōnstitum erat	—	—		—
	future perfect	—	—		cōnstitum erit	—	—		—
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	cōnsistam	cōnsistās		cōnsistat	cōnsistāmus	cōnsistātis		cōnsistant
	imperfect	cōnsisterem	cōnsisterēs		cōnsisteret	cōnsisterēmus	cōnsisterētis		cōnsisterent
	perfect	cōnstiterim	cōnstiterīs		cōnstiterit	cōnstiterīmus	cōnstiterītis		cōnstiterint
	pluperfect	cōnstitissem	cōnstitissēs		cōnstitisset	cōnstitissēmus	cōnstitissētis		cōnstitissent
passive	present	—	—		cōnsistātur	—	—		—
	imperfect	—	—		cōnsisterētur	—	—		—
	perfect	—	—		cōnstitum sit	—	—		—
	pluperfect	—	—		cōnstitum esset	—	—		—
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	cōnsiste		—	—	cōnsistite		—
active	future	—	cōnsistitō		cōnsistitō	—	cōnsistitōte		cōnsistuntō
passive	future	—	—		cōnsistitor	—	—		—
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		cōnsistere		cōnsistī		cōnsistēns		—
future		cōnstitūrum esse		cōnstitum īrī		cōnstitūrus		cōnsistendum, cōnsistundum
perfect		cōnstitisse		cōnstitum esse		—		cōnstitum
future perfect		—		cōnstitum fore		—		—
perfect potential		cōnstitūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		cōnsistendī	cōnsistendō		cōnsistendum	cōnsistendō	cōnstitum		cōnstitū

Derived terms

cōnsistōrium

Descendants

→ Albanian: konsistoj
→ Catalan: consistir
→ Galician: consistir
→ Italian: consistere
→ Middle French: consister
- French: consister
  - → Romanian: consista
- → English: consist
- → Scots: conseest
→ Portuguese: consistir
→ Sicilian: cunzìstiri
→ Spanish: consistir

References

“consisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“consisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“consisto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to depend upon a thing: consistere in aliqua re
- to be calm, self-possessed: mente consistere
- to halt: subsistere, consistere
- to take up one's position on a mountain: consistere in monte
- to form a square: in orbem consistere
- to ride at anchor: ad ancoram consistere
- to ride at anchor: in ancoris esse, stare, consistere

Portuguese

Verb

consisto

first-person singular present indicative of consistir

Spanish

Verb

consisto

first-person singular present indicative of consistir