"subsistence" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /səbˈsɪstəns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-subsistence.wav [Southern-England] Forms: subsistences [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English subsistence; partly from Middle French subsistence (modern French subsistance) and partly from its etymon Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistēns, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). Perhaps also partly from subsist + -ence. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|subsistence}} Middle English subsistence, {{der|en|frm|subsistence}} Middle French subsistence, {{cog|fr|subsistance}} French subsistance, {{der|en|LL.|subsistentia||substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability}} Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), {{der|en|la|subsistēns}} Latin subsistēns, {{m|la|subsistō|subsistere|to continue, subsist}} subsistere (“to continue, subsist”), {{suffix|en|subsist|ence}} subsist + -ence Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} subsistence (countable and uncountable, plural subsistences)
  1. Real being; existence. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-subsistence-en-noun-Aa-fLZCF
  2. The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-subsistence-en-noun-JD19mpi3
  3. Inherency. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-subsistence-en-noun-eBO9PpP6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ence Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 25 37 16 8 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 12 21 41 15 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ence: 10 18 50 14 9
  4. Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (something required to stay alive): sustenance
    Sense id: en-subsistence-en-noun-Vrd2bBRV Disambiguation of 'something required to stay alive': 1 3 0 88 7
  5. (theology) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Theology
    Sense id: en-subsistence-en-noun-vJbYgZFq Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hypostasis [theology, religion, lifestyle], subsistance [archaic] Derived forms: consubsistence, subsistence economy, subsistence farming, subsistential Related terms: subsist, subsistent Translations (means of support): كَفَاف (kafāf) (Arabic), препитание (prepitanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), subsistència [feminine] (Catalan), obživa [feminine] (Czech), Auskommen [neuter] (German), Lebensunterhalt [masculine] (German), subsistentia (Interlingua), cothabháil [feminine] (Irish), subsistência [feminine] (Portuguese), subzistență (Romanian), mijloace de trai (Romanian), прожи́тие (prožítije) [neuter] (Russian), прожи́ток (prožítok) [masculine] (Russian), пропита́ние (propitánije) [neuter] (Russian), издржавање [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), izdržavanje [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), subsistencia [feminine] (Spanish), underhåll (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'means of support': 11 22 28 27 12

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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Lebensunterhalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "word": "subsistentia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cothabháil"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "subsistência"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "word": "subzistență"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "word": "mijloace de trai"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prožítije",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "прожи́тие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prožítok",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "прожи́ток"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "propitánije",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "пропита́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "издржавање"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "izdržavanje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "subsistencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "means of support",
      "word": "underhåll"
    }
  ],
  "word": "subsistence"
}

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