perite
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
perite (comparative more perite, superlative most perite)
- (obsolete) skilled
- 1820, Blackwood's magazine, volume 7, page 668:
- […] some of our friends who are in the habit of exercising a profuse rather than a perite hospitality […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “perite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology 2 edit
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Noun edit
perite
- An orthorhombic pseudo-tetragonal mineral PbBiO2Cl, originally found in Sweden.
Further reading edit
- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Perite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “perite”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
perite
Noun edit
perite f pl
Etymology 2 edit
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Participle edit
perite f pl
Etymology 3 edit
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Verb edit
perite
- inflection of perire:
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
From perītus (“skilled”) + -ē (“-ly”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peˈriː.teː/, [pɛˈriːt̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈri.te/, [peˈriːt̪e]
Adverb edit
perītē (comparative perītius, superlative perītissimē)
Antonyms edit
Etymology 2 edit
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peˈriː.te/, [pɛˈriːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈri.te/, [peˈriːt̪e]
Verb edit
perīte
References edit
- “perite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Verb edit
perite (Cyrillic spelling перите)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
perite
- inflection of peritar: