The story
- Latin · derived fromperdurāre“to endure”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromperdūrābilis
- Old French · derived frompardurable
- Middle English · inherited fromperdurable
- English todayperdurable
From Middle English perdurable, from Old French pardurable, from Medieval Latin perdūrābilis, from Latin perdurāre (“to endure”), from per- (“throughout”) + durare (“to last”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.