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