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prettygoodwordperdure (per-DOOR) - v., to last for a very long time or forever, endure.
A synonym of that part of endure referring to lasting a long time rather than withstanding pressures. As you might guess, their stems are from the same root, the Latin dūrāre, to last, to be or become hard, from dūrus, hard -- per- is a prefix meaning throughout, utterly, very, whereas en- is a form of the verbalizing prefix in-, so while there's a connotation of hard within it's more of just being hardened, without as strong an emphatic as per-. Borrowed from intermediary of French (or Anglo-Norman) pardurer attested from the late 1300s (endure entered the language about 50 years before).
---L.
A synonym of that part of endure referring to lasting a long time rather than withstanding pressures. As you might guess, their stems are from the same root, the Latin dūrāre, to last, to be or become hard, from dūrus, hard -- per- is a prefix meaning throughout, utterly, very, whereas en- is a form of the verbalizing prefix in-, so while there's a connotation of hard within it's more of just being hardened, without as strong an emphatic as per-. Borrowed from intermediary of French (or Anglo-Norman) pardurer attested from the late 1300s (endure entered the language about 50 years before).
---L.
