peritus
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
peritus (plural periti)
- (Christianity) A Roman Catholic theologian attending an ecumenical council to give advice.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peˈriː.tus/, [pɛˈriːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈri.tus/, [peˈriːt̪us]
Adjective edit
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)
- clever, skilfully constructed
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | perītus | perīta | perītum | perītī | perītae | perīta | |
| Genitive | perītī | perītae | perītī | perītōrum | perītārum | perītōrum | |
| Dative | perītō | perītō | perītīs | ||||
| Accusative | perītum | perītam | perītum | perītōs | perītās | perīta | |
| Ablative | perītō | perītā | perītō | perītīs | |||
| Vocative | perīte | perīta | perītum | perītī | perītae | perīta | |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: perit, pèrit
- → English: perite
- Spanish: perito
- Galician: perito
- Italian: perito
- Piedmontese: perì
- Portuguese: perito
- Sicilian: piritu
References edit
- “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[1], 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
- an accomplished dialectician: disserendi peritus et artifex
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti