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Italian
Noun
pertinacia f (plural pertinacie)
- pertinacity
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From pertināx + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
pertinācia f (genitive pertināciae); first declension
- perseverance, constancy
- obstinacy, stubbornness
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “pertinacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pertinacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pertinacia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pertinacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pertinācia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /peɾtiˈnaθja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /peɾtiˈnasja/
- Rhymes: -aθja
- Rhymes: -asja
- Syllabification: per‧ti‧na‧cia
Noun
pertinacia f (plural pertinacias)
- persistence
- obstinacy
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