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perire

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See also: periré

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin perīre (vanish, die).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /peˈri.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: pe‧rì‧re

Verb

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perìre (first-person singular present perìsco, first-person singular past historic perìi, past participle perìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (in the archaic transitive usage) avére)

  1. (literary, intransitive) to die, perish [auxiliary essere]
  2. (literary, intransitive) to waste away, perish (of inanimate objects) [auxiliary essere]
  3. (literary, intransitive, figurative) to end, to cease [auxiliary essere]
  4. (archaic, transitive) to kill, to destroy, to ruin

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Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Latin

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Verb

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perīre

  1. present active infinitive of pereō