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Latin
Etymology
From pertineō + -āx
Pronunciation
Adjective
pertināx (genitive pertinācis, comparative pertinācior, superlative pertinācissimus, adverb pertināciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- persevering, obstinate
- pertinacious
- tenacious
- steadfast
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “pertinax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pertinax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pertinax 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)
- pertinax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be dogmatic; positive: pertinacem (opp. clementem) esse in disputando
- “pertinax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers