Where does “porfiar” come from?
porfiar (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese porfia, from Old Portuguese perfia, from Latin perfidia, from Latin perfidus, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
porfiar (Portuguese): to dispute; to insist, persist
Definitions
- to dispute; to insist, persist
Ancestry of “porfiar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | porfia | dispute; obstinacy |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | perfia | — |
| 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 |