perite
English
Etymology
From Latin perītus.
Adjective
perite (comparative more perite, superlative most perite)
- (obsolete) skilled
- 1820, Blackwood's magazine (volume 7, page 668)
- […] some of our friends who are in the habit of exercising a profuse rather than a perite hospitality […]
- 1820, Blackwood's magazine (volume 7, page 668)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for perite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Perite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “perite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.
Anagrams
- Petrie, Preeti
Italian
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
perite
- feminine plural of perito
Noun
perite f pl
- plural of perita
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
perite f pl
- feminine plural of perito
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
perite
- inflection of perire:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Anagrams
- erpeti, ipetre, pereti, pietre, ripete, ripeté
Latin
Etymology 1
From perītus (“skilled”) + -ē (“-ly”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peˈriː.teː/, [pɛˈriːt̪eː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈri.te/, [peˈriːt̪e]
Adverb
perītē (comparative perītius, superlative perītissimē)
- skillfully, expertly
- cleverly
Antonyms
- imperītē
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peˈriː.te/, [pɛˈriːt̪ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈri.te/, [peˈriːt̪e]
Verb
perīte
- second-person plural active imperative of pereō
References
- “perite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
perite (Cyrillic spelling перите)
- second-person plural imperative of prati
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈɾite/ [peˈɾi.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ite
- Syllabification: pe‧ri‧te
Verb
perite
- inflection of peritar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative