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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sustenance.wav Forms: sustenances [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English sustenaunce, from Old French sustenance, from sustenir with the suffix -ance, from Vulgar Latin *sustenire, from Latin sustinere. Compare also Late Latin sustinentia. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ten-}}, {{inh|en|enm|sustenaunce}} Middle English sustenaunce, {{der|en|fro|sustenance}} Old French sustenance, {{der|en|VL.|*sustenire}} Vulgar Latin *sustenire, {{der|en|la|sustinere}} Latin sustinere, {{cog|LL.|sustinentia}} Late Latin sustinentia Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sustenance (countable and uncountable, plural sustenances)
  1. Something that provides support or nourishment. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: self-sustenance Related terms: subsistence Translations (something that provides support or nourishment): διατροφή (diatrophḗ) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), রিজিক (rijik) (Bengali), রুজি (ruji) (Bengali), জীবিকা (jibika) (Bengali), препитание (prepitanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), издръжка (izdrǎžka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 维持生计 (Chinese Mandarin), ylläpito (Finnish), mantenza [feminine] (Galician), Nahrung [feminine] (German), Verpflegung [feminine] (German), פַּרְנָסָה (Hebrew), viðurværi [neuter] (Icelandic), fæði [neuter] (Icelandic), matur [masculine] (Icelandic), næring [feminine] (Icelandic), cothabháil [feminine] (Irish), pābulum [neuter] (Latin), manapou (Maori), itaca (Nahuatl), yistʼéí (Navajo), пропита́ние (propitánije) [neuter] (Russian), по̀дршка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), по̏тпора [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pòdrška [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pȍtpora [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), victo (english: daily) [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "something that provides support or nourishment",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "по̀дршка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "something that provides support or nourishment",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "по̏тпора"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "something that provides support or nourishment",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pòdrška"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "something that provides support or nourishment",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pȍtpora"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "english": "daily",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something that provides support or nourishment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "victo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sustenance"
}

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