perpetua

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pər.pəˈtu.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [peɾ.peˈtu.a]

perpetua

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

perpetua

1. feminine singular of perpetuo

Latin perpetuus.

• IPA^(key): /perˈpetua/

perpetua

1. perpetual

• perpetueso

• IPA^(key): /perˈpɛ.tu.a/, /perˈpɛ.twa/
• Rhymes: -ɛtua, -ɛtwa
• Hyphenation: per‧pè‧tu‧a, per‧pè‧tua

Named after Perpetua, Don Abbondio's gossipy servant from Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed.

perpetua f (plural perpetue)

1. a priest's housekeeper

   Hypernyms: domestica, donna di servizio, governante

2. (by extension, humorous) an aged talkative housekeeper

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

perpetua

1. feminine singular of perpetuo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

perpetua

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

perpetua

1. inflection of perpetuus:
   1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

• “perpetua”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• Rhymes: -uɐ
• Hyphenation: per‧pe‧tu‧a

perpetua

1. feminine singular of perpetuo

perpetua

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

Borrowed from French perpétuer, from Latin perpetuare.

a perpetua (third-person singular present perpetuează, past participle perpetuat) 1st conj.

1. to perpetuate

• IPA^(key): /peɾˈpetwa/ [peɾˈpe.t̪wa]
• Rhymes: -etwa
• Syllabification: per‧pe‧tua

perpetua f (plural perpetuas)

1. globe amaranth
2. helichrysum

perpetua

1. feminine singular of perpetuo

• “perpetuo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014