obstinatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin obstinō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin obstinātiō

From obstinō + -tiō.

Noun

obstinātiō f (genitive obstinātiōnis); third declension

1. firmness, resolution, steadfastness, determination
2. inflexibility, stubbornness, obstinacy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	obstinātiō	obstinātiōnēs
genitive	obstinātiōnis	obstinātiōnum
dative	obstinātiōnī	obstinātiōnibus
accusative	obstinātiōnem	obstinātiōnēs
ablative	obstinātiōne	obstinātiōnibus
vocative	obstinātiō	obstinātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: obstinació
• French: obstination
• Galician: obstinación
• Italian: ostinazione
• Occitan: obstinacion
• Portuguese: obstinação
• Romanian: obstinație
• Spanish: obstinación

References

• “obstinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obstinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “obstinatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.