FromMiddle Frenchconsister, fromLatinconsistō(“stand together, stop, become hard or solid, agree with, continue, exist”), fromcom-(“together”) +sistō(“I cause to stand, stand”).
consist (third-person singular simple presentconsists,present participleconsisting,simple past and past participleconsisted)
- (obsolete, copulative) Tobe.
1603,Michel de Montaigne, chapter 15, inJohn Florio, transl.,The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes forEdward Blount […],→OCLC:Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chieflyconsisteth[translatingloge] our pleasure and theirs?
1846,District School Journal for the State of New-York - Volume 7, page183:District number twenty-five (25) shallconsist the counties of Tompkins, Seneca and Yates.
- (archaic, intransitive) Toexist or becompatible.
1715–1720,Homer, translated byAlexander Pope, “Book VI”, inThe Iliad of Homer, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, forBernard Lintott […],→OCLC, footnote:[Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as couldconsist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.
1841,“The” Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance:First, because it is granted by all divines, that hypothetical necessity, or necessity upon a supposition, mayconsist with liberty.
2010, Michael O'Buck,Eternal Life: A Question of Honor,→ISBN:All things do notconsist by Christ today, and all the way back to Adam all things have notconsisted by Christ.
to be composed (of)
- Arabic:تَكَوَّنَ(takawwana) (of:مِن(min)),تَأَلَّفَ(taʔallafa)
- Azerbaijani:ibarətolmaq
- Belarusian:склада́цца impf(skladácca)
- Bulgarian:състоя́ се impf(sǎstojá se),съста́венсъм impf(sǎstáven sǎm)
- Catalan:consistir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (of:由(yóu) ...)組成 /组成 (zh)(zǔchéng), (of:由(yóu) ...)構成 /构成 (zh)(gòuchéng)
- Czech:skládat se (cs) impf
- Danish:bestå (da)
- Dutch:bestaan uit (nl)
- Esperanto:konsisti,ampleksi
- Finnish:koostua (fi)(+ elative)
- French:consister (fr) (of:de),se composer (fr) (of:de)
- Galician:consistir (gl)
- German: (of:aus)bestehen (de)
- Greek:αποτελούμαι (el)(apoteloúmai),συνίσταμαι (el)(synístamai)
- Icelandic:samanstanda (af (is))
- Italian:consistere (it) (of:di),comporsi,configurarsi
- Japanese: (of:...から(...kara))成り立つ (ja)(なりたつ, naritatsu), (of:...から(...kara))成る (ja)(なる, naru)
- Korean:...되어있다(...doeeo itda),...으로/로구성되다(...euro/ro guseongdoeda)
- Latin:cōnstō (la)
- Macedonian:се состои impf(se sostoi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:bestå (no)
- Polish:składać sięz impf,złożyć sięz pf
- Portuguese:consistir (pt)
- Romanian:consta (ro),consista (ro)
- Russian:состоя́ть (ru) impf(sostojátʹ) (of:из (ru)(iz) (+genitive case)),скла́дываться (ru) impf(skládyvatʹsja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:са́стојати се impf
- Roman:sástojati se (sh) impf
- Slovak:skladať sa impf
- Slovene:bitisestavljen impf
- Spanish:consistir (es)
- Swedish:vara (sv) (av (sv)),bestå (sv) (av (sv))
- Ukrainian:склада́тися impf(skladátysja)
- Volapük:binädön (vo)
- Welsh:cynnwys (cy)
- Yiddish:באַשטיין(bashteyn)(of: פֿון)
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Fromconsist (verb).
consist (pluralconsists)
- (rail transport) A lineup or sequence ofrailroad carriages or cars, with or without alocomotive, that form a unit.
The train'sconsist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.
sequence of railroad carriages or cars that form a unit
- “consist”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “consist”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “consist”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
