🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

persistente

Pronunciation / Transliteration: persistente

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
persistent/pərˈsɪstənt/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2840 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La tosse è persistente durante la notte."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Continuing firmly or obstinately in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.

    "She was persistent in her pursuit of a career in medicine."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late 16th century: from Latin persistent- 'continuing', from the verb persistere (see persist).

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