Etimology
From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.
verb
exist (third-person singular simple present exists, present participle existing, simple past and past participle existed)
(intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality
Examples
Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]
[…] , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
[…] , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.
While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.
Related words
synonyms
be; See also Thesaurus:exist
related terms
existence
existent
existential