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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tenācia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /teˈna.t͡ʃa/
- Rhymes: -atʃa
- Hyphenation: te‧nà‧cia
Noun
tenacia f (plural tenacie)
- tenacity
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From tenāx + -ia.
Noun
tenācia f (genitive tenāciae); first declension
- stubbornness, obstinacy, tenacy
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Adjective
tenācia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of tenāx
References
- tenacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- tenacia in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “tenacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press