porfía

From Old Galician-Portuguese perfia, from Latin perfidia (“faithlessness, dishonesty, treachery, falsehood, perfidy”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /poɾˈfia/ [poɾˈfi.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: por‧fí‧a

porfía f (plural porfías)

1. (archaic) perfidy
2. obstinacy
3. argument, quarrel, especially when no part is willing to yield

   Synonyms: baralla, discusión, rifa

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “perfia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “perfia”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “porfia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “porfía”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porfía”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

porfía

1. inflection of porfiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /poɾˈfia/ [poɾˈfi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: por‧fí‧a

Inherited from Latin perfidia (“faithlessness, dishonesty, treachery, falsehood, perfidy”). Doublet of perfidia.

porfía f (plural porfías)

1. obstinacy

   Synonyms: obstinación, testarudez, terquedad

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

porfía

1. inflection of porfiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “porfía”, 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