🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

pugnacità

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pugnacità

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
pugnacity/pʌɡˈnæsɪti/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il politico ha difeso la sua posizione con grande pugnacità."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Inclined to quarrel or fight readily; combative nature.

    "His unusual pugnacity during the negotiation surprised everyone in the room."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

From Late Latin pugnacitas, from Latin pugnax (combative, quarrelsome), from pugnare (to fight), ultimately from pugnus (fist).

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