sustenance

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sustenance (countable and uncountable, plural sustenances)

1. Something that provides support or nourishment.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

Derived terms

• self-sustenance

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ten- (1 c, 62 e)

• subsistence

Translations

something that provides support or nourishment

Bengali: রিজিক (bn) (rijik), রুজি (bn) (ruji), জীবিকা (bn) (jibika) Bulgarian: препитание (bg) n (prepitanie), издръжка (bg) f (izdrǎžka) Chinese: Mandarin: 维持生计 Finnish: ylläpito (fi) French: fondement (fr) m Galician: mantenza (gl) f German: Nahrung (de) f, Verpflegung (de) f Greek: Ancient: διατροφή f (diatrophḗ) Hebrew: פַּרְנָסָה (he) Icelandic: viðurværi n, fæði n, matur (is) m, næring (is) f Irish: cothabháil f Italian: sostentamento (it) m Latin: pābulum n Maori: manapou Nahuatl: itaca Navajo: yistʼé Russian: пропита́ние (ru) n (propitánije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀дршка f, по̏тпора f Roman: pòdrška (sh) f, pȍtpora (sh) f Spanish: victo m (daily)