exist

== English == === Etymology === From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren. === Pronunciation === (weak vowel distinction) IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzɪst/, [ɪɡˈzɪst] (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /əɡˈzɪst/, [əɡˈzɪst] Rhymes: -ɪst Hyphenation: ex‧ist === Verb === exist (third-person singular simple present exists, present participle existing, simple past and past participle existed) (intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== be; See also Thesaurus:exist ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “exist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “exist”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === exits, sixte == Romanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [eɡˈzist] === Verb === exist first-person singular present indicative of exista: I exist first-person singular present subjunctive of exista