The story
- Latin · derived fromsustentātio
- Old French · derived fromsustentacion
- English todaysustentation
First attested in 1382: from the Old French sustentacion, from the Latin sustentātio, from sustentō; compare the Italian sostentazione, the Occitan sustentacion, the Portuguese sustentação, and the Spanish sustentación. Doublet of sustentatio.
Words from the same roots
Latinsustentātio all →
sustentatio
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.