consisto

Italian

Verb

consisto

1. first-person singular present of consistere

Anagrams

• scostino

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Latin

Etymology

From con- (“together”) +‎ sistō (“I cause to stand, stand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈsis.toː/, [kõːˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈsis.to/, [konˈsist̪o]

Verb

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

1. I stop, stand, halt
2. I pause, linger
3. I harden
4. I agree with.
5. I continue.
6. I exist.

Conjugation

• This verb has only limited passive conjugation; only third-person passive forms are attested in surviving sources.

Conjugation of cōnsistō (third conjugation, impersonal in passive)
indicative		singular			plural
		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
		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, cōnstitum foret	—	—	—
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cōnsiste	—	—	cōnsistite	—
	future	—	cōnsistitō	cōnsistitō	—	cōnsistitōte	cōnsistuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cōnsistere	cōnstitisse	cōnstitūrum esse	cōnsistī	cōnstitum esse	—
participles		cōnsistēns	—	cōnstitūrus	—	cōnstitum	cōnsistendum, cōnsistundum
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		cōnsistendī	cōnsistendō	cōnsistendum	cōnsistendō	cōnstitum	cōnstitū

Descendants

• → Albanian: konsistoj
• → Catalan: consistir
• → Galician: consistir
• → Italian: consistere
• → Middle French: consister
  • French: consister
    • → Romanian: consista
  • → English: consist
  • → Scots: conseest
• → Portuguese: consistir
• → 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
    

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Portuguese

Verb

consisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of consistir

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Spanish

Verb

consisto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of consistir.