Latin

stō

‘stand’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin stō.

38 English words in this record descend from Latin stō, most familiar first.

• rest ← reste ← reste ← rester ← restō
• stage ← estage ← ester ← estō
• station ← stacioun ← estation ← statiōnem ← statiō
• distance ← distantia ← distāns ← distō
• instance ← īnstantia ← īnstāns ← īnstō
• arrest ← arest ← areste ← *arrestō ← restō
• instant ← īnstāns ← īnstō
• substance ← substantia ← substāns ← substō
• distant ← distaunt ← distāns ← distō
• stationary ← stationarius ← statio
• distal ← distant ← distaunt ← distant ← distāns
• extant ← extantem ← extō

More words from stō

• instantaneous
• oust
• distantly
• obstetric
• restive
• prest
• instantiation
• stanchion
• stet
• stative
• arrêt
• instanter
• arret
• distantness
• forestage
• nondistant
• obstetrix
• overdistant
• prestate
• prostibulous
• prestimony
• prostibule
• stagione
• subdistant
• ultradistant
• undistant

Etymograph / Latin stō