supervivencia

B1 · noun · f

survival

🛟 super + viv(ir) = living on beyond, outliving: survival

From Latin supervivere, to outlive: super- (over, beyond) + vivere (to live). The same viv- root appears in vivir and vivo, and English survive follows the same pattern through French: sur- (over) + vivre (live).

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