subsist

Senso (Inglese)

  1. To survive on a minimum of resources.
  2. To have ontological reality; to exist.
  3. To retain a certain state; to continue.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To supply sustenance or subsistence to or for.

Pronunciato come (IPA)
/səbˈsɪst/
Etimologia (Inglese)

From Latin subsistō (“halt, stop”), from sub (“below”) + sistō (“stand, place”). Compare consist, desist, exist, insist, persist.

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