consist [LME] Fron Latin consistere ‘stand firm or still, exist’, from sistere ‘set, stand (still), stop’, also the source of assist [LME] originally ‘take your stand’; desist [LME] ‘stand down, stop’; exist [L16th] ‘come into being’, literally ‘stand out’; insistence [LME] ‘standing upon [an argument]’; and resist [LME] ‘stand back or against’.