sostén

Meaning

sostener

  1. to hold, to hold up, to prop up, to sustain, to underpin (physically)
  2. to sustain, to support, to keep (i.e. to give continuity to)
  3. to support, to uphold, to hold, to sustain, to contend, to maintain, to argue, to claim, to underpin, to defend

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
sos‧tén
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sosˈten/
Etymology

In summary

Deverbal from sostener, or possibly borrowed from Old Occitan sostenh; compare French soutien, soutien-gorge.

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