What is the Latin word for hold out?

The usual Latin words for “hold out” are praebeō, porrigō, ostentō; also offerō, prōpōnō, tollō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“hold out” in Latin

praebeōto proffer, offer; to provide, grant, furnish, supply, service; to show, display porrigōto stretch, spread out, extend; to offer, hold out ostentōto exhibit, show, present; to show off, make a boastful display of; to offer as an example offerōto bring before or bring to, present, offer, bestow, show, place before, exhibit, expose; to cause, occasion, inflict; t prōpōnōto set forth, to put forth, to lay out; to expose to view, display; to make known tollōto raise, lift up, elevate; to remove, take away, steal, rob; to destroy, eliminate, annul attollōto lift, lift up; raise, raise up; elevate or sustain; rear levōto raise, elevate, lift up; to make light, lighten; to relieve, ease, comfort sublevōto lift up or raise (from underneath); to support, sustain, assist or encourage; to lighten or alleviate allevōto lift or set up, raise; to lighten, lessen, alleviate, mitigate, reduce; to sustain, comfort, console

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

hold out

(anything)(anything),

Extend, praebere: porrigere (e.g., cavam manum, of a beggar): ostentare (to exhibit; e.g., cavam manum): offerre (e.g., jugulum, one’s throat to be cut). To hold out one’s hand (to be caned), manum praebere verberibus (†).

Propose, offer (e.g., hopes, reward), proponere (e.g., praemium, poenam, etc.).

INTRANS., To hold out under or against anything; or absolutely, (a) = endure, ferre: perferre: tolerare (to bear with vigor and strength): sustinere: sustentare (to support one’s self under anything): excipere (as it were to accept, not to yield to anything): perpeti (to endure throughout, to the end): durare: perdurare (to last out, by exertion): perstare: perseverare (to hold out in a course of action): permanere (to hold out in a place): to hold out (against an attack of the enemy), hostium impetum sustinere, excipere: not to be able to hold out against the enemy, hostes or hostium impetum sustinere non posse: to hold out (of persons besieged), urbem retinere defendereque: the sailors could not hold out against the fury of the storm, nautae vim tempestatis subsistere non poterant: to hold out till night (of besieged persons), sustinere oppugnationem ad noctem.

To last, Vid: HOLD UP,

TRANS., Raise, tollere: attollere: levare: sublevare: allevare (to help up, assist, to support). To hold up the eyelid, palpebram manu levare; one’s hands, manus tollere; to heaven, tendere maims (supplices) ad caelum: to hold up one’s dress, vestem colligere: to hold up anybody (who is falling), labentem excipere: holding each other up, sublevantes invicem (Liv.). To hold up its head, extollere caput: se erigere (both figuratively, Cic., Planc., 13, 33).

INTRANS., To continue fair. If the weather holds up, si erit sudum (Cic.); *si serenitas erit.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for hold out?: The usual Latin words for “hold out” are praebeō, porrigō, ostentō; also offerō, prōpōnō, tollō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.