Lasted

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ˈlɑːstɪd/

Definitions

1. Persisted or continued over a certain span of time without stopping
2. Remained in existence or maintained a state for a defined duration
3. Extended in time from a beginning to an end without interruption

Etymology: The verb "to last" in the sense of enduring over time comes from a surprisingly humble object: the shoemaker's last, a wooden foot-shaped model on which shoes were built and shaped. The noun traces back through Old English "lǣste" to a Proto-Germanic root meaning "track" or "trail," from an Indo-European root meaning "to trace." Shoes, in other words, were named after the footprint they were modelled on. The verb grew out of that noun. A shoe that held its shape on the last was durable, and so "to last" came to mean to hold out, to continue. Its ancestry runs through the same Germanic family as German "Leisten," which still means shoe last, and Dutch "leest," which has the same sense. Its past form "lasted" simply follows the regular pattern of "to last": it is the simple past and past participle, and it inherited the sense of enduring that the verb developed from the shoemaker's tool.

Synonyms: endured, continued, persisted

Antonyms: stopped, ceased, finished