sustenance
noun/ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/
Etymology From Middle English sustenaunce, from Old French sustenance, from sustenir with the suffix -ance, from Vulgar Latin *sustenire, from Latin sustinere. Compare also Late Latin sustinentia. Equivalent to sustain + -ance.
1
Something that provides support or nourishment.
- More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- Derived terms
- nonsustenance, self-sustenance, susso
- Related terms
- subsistence