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