persistir

Borrowed from Latin persistere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

persistir (first-person singular present persisteixo, first-person singular preterite persistí, past participle persistit)

1. (intransitive) to persist

• persistència
• persistent

• “persistir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “persistir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “persistir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “persistir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Learned borrowing from Latin persistere.

persistir (first-person singular present persisto, first-person singular preterite persistín, past participle persistido)

1. (intransitive) to persist

• persistencia
• persistente

• “persistir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

persistir

1. past infinitive of persistar

Borrowed from Latin persistere.

• Hyphenation: per‧sis‧tir

persistir (first-person singular present persisto, first-person singular preterite persisti, past participle persistido)

1. to persist (continue to exist)

• persistência
• persistente

• “persistir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin persistere.

• IPA^(key): /peɾsisˈtiɾ/ [peɾ.sisˈt̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: per‧sis‧tir

persistir (first-person singular present persisto, first-person singular preterite persistí, past participle persistido)

1. (intransitive) to persist
2. (intransitive) to linger

• “persistir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024