sustinent

sustinent is a Latin form of sustineo, meaning “hold up, endure; delay”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.37.5: ex quibus Lucius Petrosidius aquilifer, cum magna multitudine hostium premeretur, aquilam intra vallum proiecit; ipse pro castris fortissime pugnans occiditur. Illi aegre ad noctem oppugnationem sustinent;

Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 15: … num pugnae. Progressas ultra vadum IIII Rhodias navis circumsistunt Alexandrini atque in eas impetum faciunt. Sustinent illi atque arte sollertiaque se explicant; ac tantum doctrina potuit ut in dispari numero nulla transversa ho …

All forms of sustineo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.