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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin peritūrus, future active participle of pereō (“to disappear; to perish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.riˈtu.ro/
- Rhymes: -uro
- Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧tù‧ro
Adjective
perituro (feminine peritura, masculine plural perituri, feminine plural periture) (literary)
- mortal
- Synonyms: morituro, mortale
- Antonyms: immortale, (literary) imperituro
- (figurative) transient, passing
- Synonyms: caduco, effimero, fugace, fuggevole, (literary) transeunte, transitorio
- Antonyms: eterno, (literary) immortale, (literary) imperituro, inestinguibile, perenne, perpetuo
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Further reading
- perituro in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- perituro in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- peritùro in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- perituro in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- perituro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latin
Pronunciation
Participle
peritūrō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of peritūrus