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pereo

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Noun

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pereo (accusative singular pereon, plural pereoj, accusative plural pereojn)

  1. demise, perdition
  2. accident
  3. shipwreck

Latin

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Etymology

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From per- (through) +‎ (go).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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pereō (present infinitive perīre, perfect active periī or perīvī, supine peritum); irregular conjugation, irregular, impersonal in the passive

  1. to perish, pass away, die, be ruined
    Synonyms: morior, dēcēdō, exspīrō, dēficiō, occidō, dēfungor, occumbō, excēdō, discēdō, intereō, cadō, obeō, perdor
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.267–268:
      ‘flōrē semel laesō pereunt viciaecque fabaeque,
      et pereunt lentēs, advena Nīle, tuae.’
      “Once the blossom has been damaged, the vetches and the beans perish, and your lentils perish, oh foreign [River] Nile.”
      (The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology).)
  2. to vanish, disappear, come to nothing
    Synonyms: cedō, discedō, decēdō, concēdō, excēdō, intereō
    Antonyms: crescō, exorior, orior, coorior, oborior, appāreō, pāreō, ēmergō, procedō
  3. to leak; to be absorbed
  4. to pine away with love

Usage notes

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This verb served as the original passive of perdere ("to destroy," "to ruin," "to waste," "to lose").

Conjugation

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Irregular, like (go), which it compounds. The perfect is usually contracted to periī, but occasionally appears as perīvī.

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Descendants

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  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: chiriri
    • Romanian: pieri
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

References

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Further reading

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  • pereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pereo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to die of starvation: fame confici, perire, interire
    • to die a natural death: morbo perire, absūmi, consūmi
    • I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
    • the book has been lost: liber intercidit, periit
    • they perished to a man: ad unum omnes perierunt