persiste
Portuguese, verb
persiste is spelled P-E-R-S-I-S-T-E (8 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,810th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Persiste is a Portuguese verb meaning “third-person singular present indicative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo ou segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo do verbo…”.
What does persiste mean in English?
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo ou segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo do verbo persistir
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of persiste
- per.sis.te canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is persiste in Portuguese?
persiste appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).