pereo Latin · revision 17842

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=ine-pro *h₁ey-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpɛ.re.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpɛː.re.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pereō''' (present infinitive perīre, perfect active periī or perīvī, supine peritum); irregular conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)

+ Contracted perfect forms (''perīstī'', ''perit'', ''perīsse'') are frequent;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apuleius has ''perīvit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|per-|eō|t2=to go]], “to go through”, hence “to pass away”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The verb “to go” continues [[ine-pro|*h₁ey-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Ennius writes ''virgō pereat innocēns?'' “shall an innocent girl perish?”^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Perīre'' means “to vanish, disappear” and “to be wasted” (''perit opera'' “it is a waste of trouble”).^(OLD 2012) Of persons it means “to perish, die”, with exaggeration “to pine away” and “to be madly in love” with someone, and “to be ruined”: ''periī!'' “I am lost!”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Of things it means “to be destroyed”, and of circumstances “to come to an end”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Wiktionary also gives “to leak, be absorbed”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius: ''virgō pereat innocēns?''^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''benignitātēs hominum periēre'', “people's kindness has died out”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of a tree that perishes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''periit, abiit, nāvem cōnscendit'', “he has vanished, gone, boarded a ship”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To pass from view, [[m|en|vanish]], disappear.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To be wasted;^(OLD 2012) ''perit opera'', it is a waste of trouble.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|perish]], die.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To pine away; to be madly in love (with).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be ruined;^(OLD 2012) ''periī!'', I am lost!^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of things)'' To be destroyed;^(OLD 2012) ''(of circumstances)'' to come to an end.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To leak; to be absorbed.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[compereo]]

+ * [[dēpereō]]

+ * [[dispereō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[eō]]

+ * [[intereō]]

+ * [[perdō]]

+ * [[morior]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}