Where does “porfiado” come from?
porfiado (Galician) comes from Galician porfiar, from Galician porfía, from Latin perfidia, from Latin perfidus, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
porfiado (Galician): tenacious
Definitions
- tenacious
Ancestry of “porfiado”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | porfiar | to insist, persist; to argue |
| 2 | Galician | porfía | perfidy; obstinacy; quarrel |
| 3 | Latin | perfidia | faithlessness, dishonesty, treachery, falsehood,... |
| 4 | Latin | perfidus | That breaks his promise; faithless, false,... |
| 5 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |