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English
Etymology
From Latin peritus.
Noun
peritus (plural periti)
- (Christianity) A Roman Catholic theologian attending an ecumenical council to give advice.
Latin
Etymology
Perfect active participle of the unattested verb *perior, a root found in experior (“try, test, experience”). Cognate with Ancient Greek περᾰ́ω (peráō, “to pass through”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
perītus (feminine perīta, neuter perītum, comparative perītior, superlative perītissimus, adverb perītē); first/second-declension adjective
- skillful, skilled, expert, experienced, practised (+ genitive or in + ablative or ad + accusative)
- Synonyms: expertus, gnarus, doctus, callidus, instructus, cōnsultus, sollers
- Antonyms: imperītus, rudis, inexpertus, iners, ignārus, hospes
- clever, skilfully constructed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “peritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “peritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- peritus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- peritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- an accomplished dialectician: disserendi peritus et artifex
- a connoisseur; a specialist: (artis, artium) intellegens, peritus (opp. idiota, a layman)
- statesmen: viri rerum civilium, rei publicae gerendae periti or viri in re publica prudentes
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti