English → Latin
“stubborn” in Latin
pertināxpersevering, obstinate; pertinacious; tenaciouspervicāxfirm, determined, persistent, dogged; stubborn, obstinate, headstrong, wilful; steadfastobstinōto resolve, determine, be firmly resolved, persistoffirmōto make firm, durable, steadfast; to hold fast to, persevere in; to be obstinatecontumāxinsolent, obstinate, stiff-necked, defiant; who refuses to appear in a court of law, in disobedience of a summons; unyiepervertōto overthrow; to subvert or corruptdifficilisdifficult, hard, troublesome; obstinate, intractable, hard to please or manage
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stubborn
pertinax: pervicax: obstinatus: offirmatus: contumax [SYN. in OBSTINATE]: praefractus (not yielding): perversus (perverse, not so as it should be): difficilis: natura difficilis (obstinate, difficult to manage or to treat). (The words are found in this connection and order.) difficilis et morosus: ☞ refractarius and praefractus are entirely foreign to standard prose.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stubborn?
- The usual Latin words for “stubborn” are pertināx, pervicāx, obstinō; also offirmō, contumāx, pervertō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.