Etymology
From re- (“back, again”) + sistō (“I place, I stand”).
Usage notes
Takes its object in the dative.
Verb
resistō (present infinitive resistere, perfect active restitī); third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive
- to stand back, remain standing somewhere; stand still, halt, stop, stay; remain, continue
- to rise or stand up again
- (usually in military language) to withstand, oppose, resist; make opposition or resistance (+ dative)
- Synonyms: adversor, obversor, obstō, vetō, dīvertō, officiō, recūsō, restō, repugnō, refrāgor, subsistō, oppōnō
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.598–600:
- “‘[...] Quōs omnēs undique Grāiae
circum errant aciēs; et nī mea cūra resistat,
iam flammae tulerint inimīcus et hauserit ēnsīs.”- “‘And everywhere all around them the Greek battalions range; and without my care opposing [the onslaught], [by] now they would have suffered the flames, and hostile swords would have drained [their blood].’”
(Venus is protecting the family of Aeneas.)
Conjugation
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References
- “resisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “resisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- resisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to struggle against grief: dolori resistere