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Pronunciation
Noun
pereo (accusative singular pereon, plural pereoj, accusative plural pereojn)
- demise, perdition
- accident
- shipwreck
Latin
Etymology
From per- (“through”) + eō (“go”).
Pronunciation
Verb
pereō (present infinitive perīre, perfect active periī or perīvī, supine peritum); irregular conjugation, irregular, impersonal in the passive
- 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 Nile.”
(The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology).)
- to vanish, disappear, come to nothing
- Synonyms: cedō, discedō, decēdō, concēdō, excēdō, intereō
- Antonyms: crescō, exorior, orior, coorior, oborior, appāreō, pāreō, ēmergō, procedō
- to leak; to be absorbed
- to pine away with love
Conjugation
Irregular, like eō (“go”), which it compounds. The perfect is usually contracted to periī, but occasionally appears as perīvī.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
Further reading
- “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, 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