perite

See also: perité

English

Etymology

Latin peritus.

Adjective

perite (comparative more perite, superlative most perite)

  1. (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 […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

  • “Perite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • perite mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology 1

See etymology on the main entry.

Noun

perite f pl

  1. plural of perita

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Participle

perite f pl

  1. feminine plural of perito

Etymology 3

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

perite

  1. second-person plural present indicative of perire
  2. second-person plural imperative of perire

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

perītus (“skilled”) +‎ -ē (“-ly”)

Pronunciation

Adverb

perītē (comparative perītius, superlative perītissimē)

  1. skillfully, expertly
  2. cleverly
Antonyms

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Pronunciation

Verb

perīte

  1. 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

Spanish

Verb

perite

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of peritar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of peritar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of peritar.
  4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of peritar.
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