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perite

See also: perité

English

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Etymology 1

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From Latin perītus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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perite (comparative more perite, superlative most perite)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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perite

  1. An orthorhombic pseudo-tetragonal mineral PbBiO2Cl, originally found in Sweden.

Further reading

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  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Perite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “perite”, in Mindat.org‎[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Anagrams

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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perite

  1. feminine plural of perito

Noun

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perite f pl

  1. plural of perita

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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perite f pl

  1. feminine plural of perito

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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perite

  1. inflection of perire:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From perītus (“skilled”) +‎ -ē (“-ly”).

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Adverb

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perītē (comparative perītius, superlative perītissimē)

  1. skillfully, expertly
  2. cleverly
Antonyms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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perīte

  1. second-person plural active imperative of pereō

References

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  • “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

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Verb

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perite (Cyrillic spelling перите)

  1. second-person plural imperative of prati

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /peˈɾite/ [peˈɾi.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ite
  • Syllabification: pe‧ri‧te

Verb

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perite

  1. inflection of peritar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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