pervicacia
Italian
Etymology
From Latin pervicācia.
Related terms
Further reading
- pervicacia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /per.u̯iˈkaː.ki.a/, [pɛru̯ɪˈkäːkiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /per.viˈka.t͡ʃi.a/, [perviˈkäːt͡ʃiä]
Noun
pervicācia f (genitive pervicāciae); first declension
- persistence
- obstinacy
- 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos:
- Nos quidem tantam hominum pervicaciam, quorum effrenatus furor impunitate diuturna, impensaeque nostrae benignitatis indulgentia non deliniri, sed ali potius conspiciebatur, […] debuimus tandem virga compescere;
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Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
- Italian: pervicacia
- Portuguese: pervicácia
References
- “pervicacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pervicacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pervicacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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