perire

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See also: periré

Italian

Etymology

From Latin perīre (vanish, die).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈri.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: pe‧rì‧re

Verb

perìre (first-person singular present perìsco, first-person singular past historic perìi, past participle perìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (in the archaic transitive usage) avére)

  1. (literary, intransitive) to die, perish
  2. (literary, intransitive) to waste away, perish (of inanimate objects)
  3. (literary, intransitive, figurative) to end, to cease
  4. (archaic, transitive) to kill, to destroy, to ruin

Conjugation

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Latin

Verb

perīre

  1. present active infinitive of pereō