Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈreo/Category:Esperanto 3-syllable words#PEREOCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#PEREO

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• Rhymes: -eoCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/eo#PEREOCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/eo/3 syllables#PEREO
• Syllabification: pe‧re‧o

Noun

pereo (accusative singular pereon, plural pereoj, accusative plural pereojn)Category:Esperanto lemmas#PEREOCategory:Esperanto nouns#PEREOCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#PEREOCategory:Pages with entries#PEREOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PEREO

1. demise, perdition
2. accident
3. shipwreck

Etymology

From per- (“through”) +‎ eō (“go”)Category:Latin terms prefixed with per-#EO.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.re.oː]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#PEREOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PEREO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.re.o]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#PEREOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PEREO

Verb

pereō (present infinitive perīre, perfect active periī or perīvī, supine peritum)Category:Latin lemmas#PEREOCategory:Latin verbs#PEREOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PEREOCategory:Pages with entries#PEREOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PEREO; irregular conjugation, impersonal in the passive

1. to perish, pass away, die, be ruined

   Synonyms: morior, dēcēdō, exspīrō, dēficiō, occidō, dēfungor, occumbō, excēdō, discēdō, intereō, cadō, obeō, perdor

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.267–268:

     ‘flōrē semel laesō pereunt viciaecque fabaeque,
     et pereunt lentēs, advena Nīle, tuae.’

     “Once the blossom has been damaged, the vetches and the beans perish, and your lentils perish, oh foreign [River] Nile.”
     (The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology).)

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2. to vanish, disappear, come to nothing

   Synonyms: cedō, discedō, decēdō, concēdō, excēdō, intereō

   Antonyms: crescō, exorior, orior, coorior, oborior, appāreō, pāreō, ēmergō, procedō

3. to leak; to be absorbed
4. to pine away with love

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “perīre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 247

Further reading

• “pereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pereo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to die of starvation: fame confici, perire, interire
    
  • to die a natural death: morbo perire, absūmi, consūmi
    
  • I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
    
  • the book has been lost: liber intercidit, periit
    
  • they perished to a man: ad unum omnes perierunt
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook