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Latin
Etymology
Frequentative of *perīculor, equal to perīculum (“attempt; danger”) + -ō + -itō.
Pronunciation
Verb
perīclitor (present infinitive perīclitārī, perfect active perīclitātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to try, prove or test
- Synonyms: experior, probō, temptō, spectō, explōrō
- to attempt
- Synonyms: lūctor, ēlabōrō, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, temptō, affectō, tendō, quaerō, studeō, appetō, adnītor, labōrō, contendō, pugnō, molior, ēnītor, nītor, spectō
- to be put in danger, to be imperiled
- to risk, endanger, put in peril, jeopard
- Synonyms: audeō, obiectō
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “periclitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “periclitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- periclitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to run a risk; to tempt Providence: fortunam periclitari (periculum facere)
- a man's life is at stake, is in very great danger: salus, caput, vita alicuius agitur, periclitatur, in discrimine est or versatur