consistent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →consisto, consistere, constiti, constitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stop/stand/halt/cease; pause, linger; stop spreading/flowing; take a position;; stand together/fast; consist of/be reckoned in; rest/depend upon; be unaltered;; make a stand; stay, remain (fixed), stand still/erect/upright; correspond to;; come about, exist; fall due (tax); be established; remain valid/applicable;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Adelphoe
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...auxilium: subuenite inopi. AE. Otiose nunciam ilico hic consiste. quid respectas? nil periclist: numquam, dum ego adero..." - T
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...esse in summa, neque habere ubi corpora prima consistant, quoniam spatium sine fine modoquest inmensumque patere in cunctas..." - T
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...lignis si flamma latet fumusque cinisque, ex alienigenis consistant ligna necessest, [praeterea tellus quae corpora cumque alit auget..." - L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quid in secundam numinum formam animae perpetitae, ubi consistant, quid agant, quid possint, quid velint. Haec eius initiamenta..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...evasurus, compone mores tuos, attolle animum, adversus formidata consiste; numerare eos noli qui tibi metum faciunt. Nonne videatur..." - L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...mota, tamen mobilia: hunc fortasse in quo securius consistitis locum haec nox aut hic ante noctem dies scindet..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...corporibus imprimi solent, in subtilibus non habent, ubi consistant aut haereant: in balneis quoque circa lucernam tale quiddam..." - M
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...esse quis nescit quae totae in sola qualitate consistant? XVI. In consiliis vero quae ratio suadendi..."