Words that come from Latin “sistere”

102 words across 21 languages descend from Latin sistere — including existence, exist, existing, existential, existent, coexistence, nonexistent, coexist.

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English (48)

Latin (9)

French (7)

Spanish (5)

Esperanto (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Portuguese (4)

Catalan (3)

Italian (2)

Galician (2)

Hungarian (2)

Ido (2)

Late Latin (2)

Polish (1)

Czech (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Occitan (1)

German (1)

Old French (1)

Romanian (1)

Medieval Latin (1)