resisto

Italian

Verb

resisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of resistere

Anagrams

• estorsi, estrosi, risteso, tossire

Latin

Etymology

From re- (“back, again”) +‎ sistō (“I place, I stand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈsis.toː/, [rɛˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈsis.to/, [reˈs̬ist̪o]

Usage notes

Takes its object in the dative.

Verb

resistō (present infinitive resistere, perfect active restitī); third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive

1. to stand back, remain standing somewhere; stand still, halt, stop, stay; remain, continue
2. to rise or stand up again
3. (usually in military language) to withstand, oppose, resist; make opposition or resistance (+ dative)

   Synonyms: adversor, obversor, obstō, vetō, dīvertō, officiō, recūsō, restō, repugnō, refrāgor, subsistō, oppōnō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.24:

     ut alii eruptionibus resisterent

     That the others should resist the sallies [of enemy]

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.598–600:

     “‘[...] Quōs omnēs undique Grāiae
     circum errant aciēs; et nī mea cūra resistat,
     iam flammae tulerint inimīcus et hauserit ēnsīs.”

     “‘And everywhere all around them the Greek battalions range; and without my care opposing [the onslaught], [by] now they would have suffered the flames, and hostile swords would have drained [their blood].’”
     (Venus is protecting the family of Aeneas.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of resistō (third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in passive)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	resistō	resistis	resistit	resistimus	resistitis	resistunt
	imperfect	resistēbam	resistēbās	resistēbat	resistēbāmus	resistēbātis	resistēbant
	future	resistam	resistēs	resistet	resistēmus	resistētis	resistent
	perfect	restitī	restitistī	restitit	restitimus	restitistis	restitērunt, restitēre
	pluperfect	restiteram	restiterās	restiterat	restiterāmus	restiterātis	restiterant
	future perfect	restiterō	restiteris	restiterit	restiterimus	restiteritis	restiterint
passive	present	—	—	resistitur	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	resistēbātur	—	—	—
	future	—	—	resistētur	—	—	—
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	resistam	resistās	resistat	resistāmus	resistātis	resistant
	imperfect	resisterem	resisterēs	resisteret	resisterēmus	resisterētis	resisterent
	perfect	restiterim	restiterīs	restiterit	restiterīmus	restiterītis	restiterint
	pluperfect	restitissem	restitissēs	restitisset	restitissēmus	restitissētis	restitissent
passive	present	—	—	resistātur	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	resisterētur	—	—	—
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	resiste	—	—	resistite	—
	future	—	resistitō	resistitō	—	resistitōte	resistuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		resistere	restitisse	—	resistī	—	—
participles		resistēns	—	—	—	—	resistendum, resistundum
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		resistendī	resistendō	resistendum	resistendō	—	—

Derived terms

• resistentia

Related terms

• absistō
• assistō
• circumsistō
• cōnsistō
• dēsistō
• exsistō
• obsistō
• persistō
• sistō
• subsistō
• īnsistō

 

Descendants

• Catalan: resistir
• English: resist
• French: résister
• Galician: resistir
• Italian: resistere
• Piedmontese: resiste
• Portuguese: resistir
• Sicilian: risìstiri
• Spanish: resistir

References

• “resisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “resisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• resisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to struggle against grief: dolori resistere
    

Portuguese

Verb

resisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of resistir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈsisto/ [reˈsis.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -isto
• Syllabification: re‧sis‧to

Verb

resisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of resistir