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- Spanish · derived fromintransigente
- French · borrowed fromintransigeance
- English todayintransigence
From French intransigeance, noun form of intransigeant, borrowed from Spanish intransigente at the end of the nineteenth century. Morphologically, from in- + transiger + -ant, literally "uncompromising".
Words from the same roots
Spanishintransigente all →
intransigent
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.