consto
See also: constò and constó
Catalan
Verb
consto
- first-person singular present indicative form of constar
Italian
Verb
consto
- first-person singular present indicative of constare
Anagrams
- sconto, scontò
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *komstaēō. Equivalent to con- (“together”) + stō (“stand”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.stoː/, [ˈkõːs̠t̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.sto/, [ˈkɔnst̪o]
Verb
cōnstō (present infinitive cōnstāre, perfect active cōnstitī, supine cōnstātum); first conjugation, no passive
- to stand together
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 28:
- In foro ac locis patentioribus [...] constiterunt
- They stood together in the marketplace and the more open places
- In foro ac locis patentioribus [...] constiterunt
- to stand still; to remain the same; stand firm
- Synonyms: sistō, persistō, remaneō, maneō, stō, haereō
- to agree, correspond, fit
- Synonyms: concordō, condīcō, conveniō, cōnsentiō, assentiō, concurrō, congruō, pangō
- Antonyms: dissentiō, dissideō, discordō, variō, abhorreō
- to be certain, decided, consistent
- Antonyms: errō, pendeō, dubitō, fluitō, vagor
- (used impersonally) it is well known
- cōnstat
- to consist, to be composed of
- c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris
- carrus plumbi constat ex triginta fotmallis
- The fother of lead is formed from thirty fotmals.
- carrus plumbi constat ex triginta fotmallis
- c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris
- to cost (with ablative)
- Multō sanguine victōria nōbīs cōnstitit.
- The victory cost us much blood.
- Quantī cōnstat?
- How much does it cost?
Conjugation
| Conjugation of cōnstō (first conjugation, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnstō | cōnstās | cōnstat | cōnstāmus | cōnstātis | cōnstant |
| imperfect | cōnstābam | cōnstābās | cōnstābat | cōnstābāmus | cōnstābātis | cōnstābant | |
| future | cōnstābō | cōnstābis | cōnstābit | cōnstābimus | cōnstābitis | cōnstābunt | |
| perfect | cōnstitī | cōnstitistī | cōnstitit | cōnstitimus | cōnstitistis | cōnstitērunt, cōnstitēre | |
| pluperfect | cōnstiteram | cōnstiterās | cōnstiterat | cōnstiterāmus | cōnstiterātis | cōnstiterant | |
| future perfect | cōnstiterō | cōnstiteris | cōnstiterit | cōnstiterimus | cōnstiteritis | cōnstiterint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnstem | cōnstēs | cōnstet | cōnstēmus | cōnstētis | cōnstent |
| imperfect | cōnstārem | cōnstārēs | cōnstāret | cōnstārēmus | cōnstārētis | cōnstārent | |
| perfect | cōnstiterim | cōnstiterīs | cōnstiterit | cōnstiterīmus | cōnstiterītis | cōnstiterint | |
| pluperfect | cōnstitissem | cōnstitissēs | cōnstitisset | cōnstitissēmus | cōnstitissētis | cōnstitissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | cōnstā | — | — | cōnstāte | — |
| future | — | cōnstātō | cōnstātō | — | cōnstātōte | cōnstantō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | cōnstāre | cōnstitisse | cōnstātūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | cōnstāns | — | cōnstātūrus | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| cōnstandī | cōnstandō | cōnstandum | cōnstandō | cōnstātum | cōnstātū | ||
Descendants
- Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: custã, custu
- Romanian: custa
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Istriot: custà
- Italian: costare
- → Romanian: costa
- Neapolitan: custà
- Sicilian: custari
- Old French: coster, couster
- Middle French: couster
- French: coûter
- Norman: couôter, coûtaïr
- → Dutch: kosten
- → Middle English: costen
- English: cost
- Scots: cost
- → Middle High German: kosten
- Bavarian:
- Cimbrian: khostan
- Mòcheno: kosten
- German: kosten
- Bavarian:
- Middle French: couster
- Old Occitan: costar
- Catalan: costar
- Occitan: costar
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: costâ
- Ladin: coster
- Romansch: custar, custair, cuostair
- Sardinian: costai, costare, costari
- Venetian: costar, gostar
- West Iberian
- Asturian: costar
- Old Portuguese: costar, custar
- Galician: costar
- Portuguese: custar
- Old Spanish: costar
- Spanish: costar
- Borrowings
- → Albanian: kushtoj
- → Catalan: constar
- → French: constat
- → Italian: constare
- → Portuguese: constar
- → Romanian: consta
- → Spanish: constar
References
- “consto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “consto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- consto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
- to be composed of; to consist of: constare ex aliqua re
- it is a recognised fact: inter omnes constat
- I have not made up my mind: mihi non constat (with indirect question)
- to contradict oneself, be inconsistent: a se dissidere or sibi non constare (of persons)
- to compose oneself with difficulty: mente vix constare (Tusc. 4. 17. 39)
- to be consistent: sibi constare, constantem esse
- a thing costs much, little: aliquid magno, parvo stat, constat
- a thing costs nothing: aliquid nihilo or gratis constat
- the accounts balance: ratio alicuius rei constat (convenit, par est)
- I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
Portuguese
Verb
consto
- first-person singular present indicative of constar
Spanish
Verb
consto
- first-person singular present indicative of constar