**IV.b4 To Insist**

Dates 1580s,

Originates French *insister* (14c.) Or

directly from Latin *insistere.*

"take a stand, stand on, stand still; follow, pursue; insist, press vigorously, urge, dwell upon," from in- "upon".

(from PIE root \*en "in") + sistere "take a stand," from PIE \*si-st-, reduplicated form of root \*sta- "to stand, make or be firm."

assist (v.) Related: Assisted; assisting. Medical assisted suicide attested from 1884.
