soutien

See also: Soutien

French

Etymology

Deverbal from soutenir.

(soutien-gorge): Compare typologically Russian подтя́жки (podtjážki) (distantly cognate vie Proto-Indo-European *ten-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.tjɛ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

soutien m (plural soutiens)

1. support (physical)
2. support (psychological/emotional)
3. (informal) ellipsis of soutien-gorge

   Synonym: soutif

Derived terms

• soutien-gorge

Related terms

• soutenir

Descendants

• → Albanian: sutjena
• → Bulgarian: сутие́н (sutién)
• → Egyptian Arabic: ستيان (sutyān)
• → Persian: سوتین (sutiyan)
• → Greek: σουτιέν (soutién)
• → Khmer: អាវស៊ូជាង (ʼaaw suuciəng)
• → Portuguese: sutiã
• → Romanian: sutien
• → Spanish: soutien
• → Turkish: sütyen, sutyen
• → Vietnamese: xu-chiêng

Further reading

• “soutien”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French soutien.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /su.t͡ʃiˈẽj̃/ [su.t͡ʃiˈẽɪ̯̃], (faster) /suˈt͡ʃjẽj̃/ [suˈt͡ʃjẽɪ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /suˈtjen/

Noun

soutien m (plural soutiens)

1. alternative form of sutiã

Further reading

• “soutien”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “soutien”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French soutien.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suˈtjen/ [suˈt̪jẽn]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: sou‧tien

Noun

soutien m (plural soutiens)

1. (Rioplatense) bra; brassiere

   Alternative forms: sutién, sutián

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sostén

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “soutien”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010