insto

From in- (“after”) +‎ stō (“to stand”). The meaning developed from “stand behind” to “pursue, be imminent” to “press, urge”.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈĩː.stoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin.sto]

īnstō (present infinitive īnstāre, perfect active īnstitī, supine īnstātum); first conjugation

1. (ambitransitive) to stand upon, set foot on
2. to be nearby, close to, be imminent

   Synonyms: subsum, astō, immineō, stō, contingō, praesum

   Antonyms: dissideō, distō, abstō

3. (ambitransitive, with accusative or dative) to assail, press upon, harass

   Synonyms: invādō, oppugnō, incurrō, impetō, incessō, aggredior, excurrō, concurrō, occurrō, petō, inruō, accēdō, intrō, incēdō, incidō, irrumpō, adorior, adeō, opprimō, accurrō, appetō, arripiō, assiliō, invehō, lacessō

   Antonyms: repugnō, resistō, adversor, obversor, obstō, sistō

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.37:

     instantes cedentibus

     while pressing the retreating (soldiers)

4. (intransitive, with dative) to urge, pursue, insist, to be intent upon

   Synonyms: exsequor, persequor, sequor, cōnsequor, premō, agō, apīscor

5. (transitive) to urge (forward), ply
6. (intransitive) to be pressing, draw nigh, approach, threaten

   Synonym: immineō

• English: instant

• insto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication

• “insto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “insto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “insto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a war is imminent: bellum impendet, imminet, instat
    
  • to press the fugitives: fugientibus instare
    
• insto in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “instant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

insto

1. first-person singular present indicative of instar

insto

1. first-person singular present indicative of instar