sostenere

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to support, to hold up, to prop, to carry the weight of
  2. (transitive) to sustain, to bear, to stand, to suffer
  3. (transitive) to support, to back, to stand up for, to uphold, to defend, to cheer up
  4. (transitive) to state, to assert, to claim, to maintain
  5. (transitive) to play, to act
  6. (transitive) to be the arche of

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
so‧ste‧né‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sos.teˈne.re/
Etymology

From Latin sustinēre.

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