Word Origin Summary

Persistō is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• persist

  English · derived from

• persistere

  Italian · borrowed from

• persistir

  Catalan · derived from

• persistir

  Spanish · derived from

• persistar

  IDO · derived from

• persisteren

  Dutch · derived from

• persista

  Romanian · borrowed from

• persistir

  Portuguese · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root