perditus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of perdō.

Participle

perditus (feminine perdita, neuter perditum, comparative perditior, superlative perditissimus, adverb perditē); first/second-declension participle

destroyed, ruined
wasted, squandered
lost

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	perditus	perdita	perditum	perditī	perditae	perdita
Genitive	perditī	perditae	perditī	perditōrum	perditārum	perditōrum
Dative	perditō	perditae	perditō	perditīs
Accusative	perditum	perditam	perditum	perditōs	perditās	perdita
Ablative	perditō	perditā	perditō	perditīs
Vocative	perdite	perdita	perditum	perditī	perditae	perdita

Derived terms

imperditus

Descendants

Asturian: perda
Catalan: pèrdua
French: perte
Friulian: pierdite
Galician: perda
Italian: perdita
Norman: pèrte (Jersey)
Occitan: pèrda, pèrdia
Piedmontese: pèrdita
Portuguese: perda
Sardinian: pérdidu, pérdiu
Spanish: pérdida, perta

References

“perditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“perditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
perditus 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)
perditus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a critical position; a hopeless state of affairs: res dubiae, perditae, afflictae
- misfortune, adversity: res adversae, afflictae, perditae
- a lost book of which fragments (relliquiae, not fragmenta) remain: liber perditus
- a depraved, abandoned character: homo perditus
- moral corruption (not corruptela morum): mores corrupti or perditi