pertinent

Inherited from Middle English pertinent, borrowed from Old French pertinent and Latin pertinēns, pertinentem.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpətɪnənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɚtɪnənt/

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pertinent (plural pertinents)

1. (law) A right that attaches to land, in Scots law.

pertinent (comparative more pertinent, superlative most pertinent)

1. Important with regard to (a subject or matter); pertaining; relevant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pertinent

   Antonym: nonpertinent

   Coordinate term: semipertinent

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:

     Fourthly, I have made an effort to call the attention of the reader to the pertinent literature.

• impertinent
• pertain
• pertinence
• pertinency
• unpertinent

• “pertinent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pertinent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pertinent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Learned borrowing from Latin pertinēns, pertinentem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pər.tiˈnen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pər.tiˈnent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peɾ.tiˈnent]

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pertinent m or f (masculine and feminine plural pertinents)

1. relevant, pertinent

• pertinentment

• pertànyer
• pertinença
• pertinència

• “pertinent”, 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
• “pertinent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “pertinent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pertinent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French pertinent (first attested circa 1300), borrowed from Latin pertinēns, pertinentem.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.ti.nɑ̃/

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pertinent (feminine pertinente, masculine plural pertinents, feminine plural pertinentes)

1. pertinent; relevant

   raisons pertinentes ― relevant reasons

2. judicious; justified

• “pertinent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

pertinent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of pertineō

Borrowed from French pertinent, ultimately from Latin pertinēns, pertinentem.

pertinent m or n (feminine singular pertinentă, masculine plural pertinenți, feminine and neuter plural pertinente)

1. relevant