periclitor
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From perīculum (“attempt; danger”) + -ō + -itō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /peˈriː.kli.tor/, [pɛˈriːklʲɪt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈri.kli.tor/, [peˈriːklit̪or]
Verb
[edit]perīclitor (present infinitive perīclitārī, perfect active perīclitātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to try, prove or test
- to attempt
- to be put in danger, to be imperiled
- to risk, endanger, put in peril, jeopard
Conjugation
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: periclitate
- → French: péricliter
- → Italian: periclitare
- → Portuguese: periclitar
- → Romanian: periclita
- → Spanish: periclitar
References
[edit]- “periclitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “periclitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- periclitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to run a risk; to tempt Providence: fortunam periclitari (periculum facere)
- a man's life is at stake, is in very great danger: salus, caput, vita alicuius agitur, periclitatur, in discrimine est or versatur
- to run a risk; to tempt Providence: fortunam periclitari (periculum facere)