percer

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to pierce
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) to make it, to have one's breakthrough

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɛʁ.se/
Etymology

In summary

From Old French percier, from Vulgar Latin *pertusiāre, from Latin pertusus (“perforated”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-dʰh₁- (“to pierce, strike”). Compare Italian pertugiare.

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