peritus

English

Etymology

Latin peritus

Noun

peritus (plural periti)

1. (Christianity) A Roman Catholic theologian attending an ecumenical council to give advice.

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of the unattested verb *perior, a root found in experior (“try, test, experience”). Cognate with Ancient Greek περᾰ́ω (peráō, “to pass through”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peˈriː.tus/, [pɛˈriːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈri.tus/, [peˈriːt̪us]

Adjective

perītus (feminine perīta, neuter perītum, comparative perītior, superlative perītissimus, adverb perītē); first/second-declension adjective

1. skillful, skilled, expert, experienced, practised (+ genitive or in + ablative or ad + accusative)

   Synonyms: expertus, gnarus, doctus, callidus, instructus, cōnsultus, sollers

   Antonyms: imperītus, rudis, inexpertus, iners, ignārus, hospes

2. clever, skilfully constructed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	perītus	perīta	perītum		perītī	perītae	perīta
Genitive	perītī	perītae	perītī		perītōrum	perītārum	perītōrum
Dative	perītō		perītō		perītīs
Accusative	perītum	perītam	perītum		perītōs	perītās	perīta
Ablative	perītō	perītā	perītō		perītīs
Vocative	perīte	perīta	perītum		perītī	perītae	perīta

Derived terms

• imperītus
• perītē
• perītia

Descendants

• Catalan: perit, pèrit
• → English: perite
• Spanish: perito
• Galician: perito
• Italian: perito
• Piedmontese: perì
• Portuguese: perito
• Sicilian: piritu

References

• “peritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “peritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• peritus 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)
• peritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an accomplished dialectician: disserendi peritus et artifex
    
  • a connoisseur; a specialist: (artis, artium) intellegens, peritus (opp. idiota, a layman)
    
  • statesmen: viri rerum civilium, rei publicae gerendae periti or viri in re publica prudentes
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti