porsuir
Old French
Alternative forms
- porsevre
- porsivre
- porsivir
- poursuire
- pursure
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *prosequere (attested in Vulgar or early Medieval Latin as prosevere and prosequire), from Latin prosequor, prosequi; influenced by persequor, whence the Old French parsivre, parsuivre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /purˈsyjr/
Verb
porsuir
- to pursue, to seek
- to pursue, to continue
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):
- Et pour ce que ceste cure est difficile nul ne le doit avoir mal se nous la poursuivons tres diligement plus particulierement
- And because this treatment is difficult, none should be concerned if we pursue it very diligently and particularly
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- to claim
- to possess
Descendants
- English: pursure (borrowed via Anglo-Norman)
- French: poursuivre
- Norman: poursuivre
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