perdition

perdition

English

Etymology

From Middle English perdicioun, from Old French perdiciun, from Late Latin perditio, from Latin perdo (“I destroy, I lose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɜː(ɹ).ˈdɪ.ʃən/
• Hyphenation: per‧di‧tion
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

• Audio (US)

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Noun

perdition (countable and uncountable, plural perditions)

1. Eternal damnation.
   • 2009, Behemoth, Ov Fire and the Void

     I son ov perdition / From sheer nothingness transgressed

2. Hell.
3. Absolute ruin; downfall.

   Their decision to buy stocks just before the crisis led to their perdition.

Synonyms

• abyss
• Hades
• inferno
• netherworld
• underworld
• hell

Translations

eternal damnation

Bulgarian: ад (bg) m (ad) Danish: evig (da) fordømmelse Dutch: eeuwige (nl) verdoemenis (nl) Esperanto: pereo Finnish: kadotus German: ewige (de) Verdammnis (de) f Hungarian: örök (hu) kárhozat (hu) Icelandic: glötun (is) f Japanese: 劫罰 (ごうばつ, gōbatsu) Macedonian: про́клетство n (prókletstvo) Persian: نفرین ابدی‎ (nefrin-e abadi) Polish: wieczne potępienie n Portuguese: perdição (pt) f Russian: прокля́тие (ru) (prokljátije) Serbo-Croatian: prokletstvo (sh) n Spanish: perdición (es) f Swedish: evig (sv) fördömelse Turkish: cehennem (tr)

hell

Bulgarian: ад (bg) m (ad) Danish: helvede n Dutch: hel (nl) Finnish: helvetti (fi) French: enfer (fr) m German: Hölle (de) f Japanese: 地獄 (ja) (jigoku) Macedonian: пе́кол m (pékol), ад (mk) m (ad) Malay: neraka Persian: دوزخ‎ (fa) (duzakh) Polish: piekło (pl) n Portuguese: inferno (pt) m Russian: гее́нна (ru) f (gejénna) Serbo-Croatian: pakao (sh) m Spanish: infierno (es) m Swedish: helvete (sv) Turkish: cehennem (tr)

absolute ruin

Bulgarian: гибел (bg) f (gibel) Danish: undergang c Dutch: verderf (nl) Finnish: tuho (fi) Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐍃 f (fralusts) Icelandic: glötun (is) f Japanese: 衰滅 (すいめつ, suimetsu) Macedonian: про́паст f (própast), ги́бел f (gíbel) Persian: نابودی‎ (fa) (nabudi), دمار‎ (fa) (damar) Portuguese: perdição (pt) f Russian: ги́бель (ru) f (gíbelʹ) Serbo-Croatian: propast (sh) f Spanish: perdición (es) f Swedish: fördärv (sv) n

Anagrams

• direption, tropidine

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French

Etymology

From Old French perdiciun, borrowed from Late Latin perditio, perditionem, from Latin perdo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

perdition f (plural perditions)

1. perdition

Related terms

• perdre

Further reading

• “perdition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.