Where does “pertinacité” come from?
pertinacité (Middle French) comes from Old French pertinace, from Latin pertināx, from Latin pertineō, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle — that.
Ancestry of “pertinacité”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | pertinace | obstinate, stubborn |
| 2 | Latin | pertināx | persevering, obstinate |
| 3 | Latin | pertineō | to extend, stretch out, reach, matter |
| 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 |