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verb

soutenir

/sut.niʁ/

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verb/sut.niʁ/

to support; to keep up; to maintain (that); to argue

Inherited from Middle French soustenir, from Old French sustenir, soustenir, from Vulgar Latin *sustenīre, from Latin sustinēre. Asynchronically analyzable as sou- + tenir.