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pereo (accusative singular pereon, plural pereoj, accusative plural pereojn)

1. demise, perdition
2. accident
3. shipwreck

From per- (“through”) +‎ eō (“go”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.re.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.re.o]

pereō (present infinitive perīre, perfect active periī or perīvī, supine peritum); 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, Ovid, 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).)

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

This verb served as the original passive of perdere ("to destroy," "to ruin," "to waste," "to lose").

Irregular, like eō (“go”), which it compounds. The perfect is usually contracted to periī, but occasionally appears as perīvī.

• perdō

• compereō
• dēpereō
• dispereō
• perītiō

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

• “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^[1], 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