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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of peragō.
Participle
perāctus (feminine perācta, neuter perāctum); first/second-declension participle
- pierced, transfixed
- traversed
- harassed
- carried through, executed, finished, accomplished, completed
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 1.667–668:
- vīlice, dā requiem terrae sēmente perāctā;
dā requiem, terram quī coluēre, virīs.- Overseer, give rest to the farmland, the sowing having been completed;
and give rest to the men who tilled the land.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “peractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “peractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- peractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- after a year has elapsed: anno peracto, circumacto, interiecto, intermisso