stō

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /stoː/, [s̠t̪oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sto/, [st̪ɔː]

Audio (Classical)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂-.

Cognate with Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tíṣṭhati) (root स्था (sthā)), Persian ایستا‎ (istâ, “standing; stopping”), Old Norse standa, Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi), στάσις (stásis), Bulgarian стоя (stoja), Old English standan (whence English stand).

By its appearance through Latin sound laws, this stative verb, against all others of this class in the 2nd conjugation, belongs to the 1st conjugation. The perfect and supine stems are shared with sistō, the corresponding athematic verb from the same Indo-European root.

Verb

stō (present infinitive stāre, perfect active stetī, supine statum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive

to stand [ synonym ▲][ quotations ▼]
Synonym: astō
to stay, remain [ synonyms ▲]
Synonyms: cōnstō, sistō, cōnsistō, remaneō, maneō, haereō
to cost, to be set at, stand at (e.g., a price) [ quotations ▼]
(Medieval Latin) to be [ synonyms, antonym ▲]
Synonyms: adsum, subsum, astō, exstō

Antonym: desum
(Medieval Latin) to be [located at]
(Medieval Latin) to live