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Latin
Etymology
From dē- + pereō.
Pronunciation
Verb
dēpereō (present infinitive dēperīre, perfect active dēperiī or dēperīvī, supine dēperitum); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive perfect forms, impersonal in the passive
- (intransitive) to perish, to be ruined, to get lost, to go awaste
c. 48 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Civili 3.87.2:
- Perexigua pars illīus exercitūs superest. Magna pars dēperiit, quod accidere tot proeliīs fuit necesse, multōs autumnī pestilentia in Italiā consūmpsit, multī domum discessērunt, multī sunt relictī in continentī.
- A very small part of that army is left. A great part perished, which had to happen in so many battles, the pestilence of the autumn consumed many in Italy, many left for home, many were left behind.
- C.E. 530 – C.E. 533, Justinian I, Dīgesta seu Pandectae 17.1.8.6:
- Mandāvī, ut negōtia gererēs: sī nihil dēperierit, quamvīs nēmō gesserit, nūlla āctiō est, aut sī alius idoneē gesserit, cessat mandātī āctiō.
- I mandated you to manage some affairs: if nothing got lost even though nobody managed them, no claim arises, or if somebody manages alike, the claim from the mandate cedes.
- (transitive) to be desperately in love with, to love to distraction
Conjugation
Third-person singular passive forms are scantily attested in Medieval texts.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “depereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “depereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- depereo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “depereo” on page 569 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)