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pervicacious
Jan. 4th, 2013 07:39 ampervicacious (pur-vi-KEY-shuhs) - adj., extremely willful, obstinate, inflexible, stubborn, refractory.
Coined around 1630 from the Latin stem pervicāc- of pervicāx, stubborn, willful, from intensifying prefix per- + vic-, variant stem of vincere, to conquer. So despite the meaning and spelling, unrelated to perverse, which at root means thoroughly turn (the wrong way).
---L.
Coined around 1630 from the Latin stem pervicāc- of pervicāx, stubborn, willful, from intensifying prefix per- + vic-, variant stem of vincere, to conquer. So despite the meaning and spelling, unrelated to perverse, which at root means thoroughly turn (the wrong way).
---L.
