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English
Etymology
From Middle English peril, from Old French peril, from Latin perīculum. Doublet of periculum.
Pronunciation
Noun
peril (countable and uncountable, plural perils)
- A situation of serious and immediate danger.
Your life is in peril.
- Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
the perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc.)
- (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
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Translations
a situation of serious danger
- Arabic: خَطَر (ḵaṭar)
- Egyptian Arabic: خطر m (ḵaṭar)
- Armenian: վտանգ (hy) (vtang)
- Bulgarian: опасност (bg) f (opasnost)
- Catalan: perill (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 危險／危险 (zh) (wéixiǎn)
- Czech: nebezpečí (cs)
- Danish: fare (da) c
- Dutch: gevaar (nl)
- Finnish: vaara (fi), vaaratilanne
- French: péril (fr), risque (fr) m
- German: Gefahr (de) f, Risiko (de) n
- Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌴𐌹 f (bireikei), 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌸𐌴𐌹 f (sleiþei)
- Greek:
- Ancient: κίνδυνος m (kíndunos)
- Hungarian: veszély (hu), veszedelem (hu)
- Italian: periglio m, pericolo (it) m
- Japanese: 危険 (ja) (きけん, kiken)
- Latin: periculum (la)
- Plautdietsch: Jefoa f
- Polish: niebezpieczeństwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: perigo (pt) m
- Romanian: pericol (ro) n
- Russian: опа́сность (ru) f (opásnostʹ), риск (ru) m (risk), угро́за (ru) f (ugróza)
- Scottish Gaelic: cunnart m, gàbhadh m
- Spanish: peligro (es) m, riesgo (es) m
- Swedish: fara (sv) c
- Tocharian A: sanu
- Tocharian B: ñyātse
- Zazaki: risk, riziko
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something that causes, contains, or presents danger
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Verb
peril (third-person singular simple present perils, present participle periling or perilling, simple past and past participle periled or perilled)
- (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.
- 1830, Robert Hayne, Speech in the United States Senate:
- And are we, Mr. President, who stood by our country then, who threw open our coffers, who bared our bosoms, who freely perilled all in that conflict, to be reproached with want of attachment to the Union?
1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XIV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:"I will have nothing to do with this matter, whatever it is. Do you think I am going to peril my reputation for you?"
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
- perile, periil, perel, peryle, pereyl, parelle, peryl, perell, perill, parell, pereil
Etymology
From Old French peril, from Latin perīculum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛril/, /pɛˈriːl/, /ˈpɛrəl/, /ˈparəl/
Noun
peril (plural perilles)
- Danger, risk, peril; something that is potentially harmful or risky:
- A location where danger, risk, or peril is present or likely.
- A thing or enterprise which creates peril; anything which creates or which is of peril.
- Sinfulness; religious threat or danger.
- (Late Middle English) Bad fortune; unluckiness or mischance.
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Old French
Etymology
From Latin perīculum.
Noun
peril oblique singular, m (oblique plural periz or perilz, nominative singular periz or perilz, nominative plural peril)
- peril; hazard; danger
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