porfia

See also: porfía and porfiá

Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese perfia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin perfidia (“dishonesty”). Compare Spanish porfía.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: por‧fi‧a

Noun

porfia f (plural porfias)

1. dispute
2. obstinacy

Synonyms

• (dispute): disputa
• (obstinacy): teima

Derived terms

• porfiar