English

support

/səˈpɔːt/

To help keep from falling.

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Etymology 1

From Middle English supporten, from Old French supporter, from Latin supportō.

Etymology 2

From Middle English support, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French support. Displaced Old English wraþu.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

rootProto-Indo-European*per- (fare)
inheritedMiddle Englishsupporten
- derivedOld Frenchsupporter
  - derivedLatinsupportō
inheritedMiddle Englishsupport
- derivedMiddle Frenchsupport

verb

To help keep from falling.
To back or favor a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid
To provide sustenance or maintenance for; to sustain in integrity or livelihood.
To help, particularly financially; to subsidize.
To provide evidence for; to lend credibility to.
To serve, as in a customer-oriented position; to give support to.

noun

Something which supports.
Financial or other help.
Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
The set of all prime ideals of R such that the localization of M at the prime is nonzero, denoted operatorname SuppM