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Latin
Etymology
From per- + petō + -uus. Compare perpes.
Pronunciation
Adjective
perpetuus (feminine perpetua, neuter perpetuum, comparative perpetuior, superlative perpetuissimus, adverb perpetuē or perpetuō); first/second-declension adjective
- perpetual, everlasting, continuous, uninterrupted, constant, incessant, unbroken
- Synonyms: aeternus, perennis, assiduus, continuātus, diuturnus, continuus
8 CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses 1.2–4:
- dī, coeptīs (nam vōs mūtāstis et illa)
adspīrāte meīs prīmāque ab orīgine mundī
ad mea perpetuum dēdūcite tempora carmen!- O gods, favor my undertakings (for you have changed them too), and lead my uninterrupted song down from the first origin of the world to my times!
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “perpĕtŭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- PERPETUUS 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)
- “perpetuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- for ever: in perpetuum
- a continuous discourse: oratio perpetua
- current expenses: sumptus perpetui (Off. 2. 12. 42)
- simple interests: perpetuum fenus (Att. 5. 21. 13)
- the standing commissions of inquiry: quaestiones perpetuae (Brut. 27. 106)
- to say once for all: ut semel or in perpetuum dicam
- perpĕtŭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 1,156–1,157.
- “perpetuus” on page 1,351 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- perpetuus in Ramminger, Johann (2024 April 29 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016