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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of perdō.
Participle
perditus (feminine perdita, neuter perditum, comparative perditior, superlative perditissimus, adverb perditē); first/second-declension participle
- destroyed, ruined
- wasted, squandered
- lost
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “perditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perditus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- perditus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a critical position; a hopeless state of affairs: res dubiae, perditae, afflictae
- misfortune, adversity: res adversae, afflictae, perditae
- a lost book of which fragments (relliquiae, not fragmenta) remain: liber perditus
- a depraved, abandoned character: homo perditus
- moral corruption (not corruptela morum): mores corrupti or perditi