persuasi-f, -ve, adj., persuasive; persuading, convincing, clinching.
persuasion, n.f., persuasion, conviction, belief, opinion. L’éloquence a pour but la —; the object of eloquence is to persuade. Agir à la — d’un autre; to act by (the) persuasion of another.
persuasivement, adv., persuasively.
perte, n.f., loss, losings; ruin, waste, wastefulness; fall, doom. À —; at a loss; (med.) flooding. Faire une —; to meet with a loss. Être en —; to be a loser. Courir à sa —; to go to one’s ruin, to one’s doom. — de temps; waste of time. La — du Rhône; (geog.) place where the Rhone disappears beneath the rocks. Vendre à —; to sell at a loss. En pure —; to no purpose, uselessly, in vain. À — de vue; as far as the eye can reach. Je suis en —; I am a loser by it.
pertinacité, n.f., pertinacity.
pertinemment (-na-mān), adv., pertinently.
pertinence, n.f., pertinency.
pertinent, -e, adj., pertinent.
pertuis, n.m., (geog.) straits; sluice, narrow opening in a flood-gate.
pertuisane, n.f., partisan, halberd.