perite

See also: perité

English

Etymology

From Latin perītus.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Perite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “perite”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Anagrams

• Petrie, Preeti

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Italian

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

perite

1. feminine plural of perito

Noun

perite f pl

1. plural of perita

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

perite f pl

1. feminine plural of perito

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

perite

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

Anagrams

• erpeti, ipetre, pereti, pietre, ripete, ripeté

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Latin

Etymology 1

From perītus (“skilled”) +‎ -ē (“-ly”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peˈriː.teː/, [pɛˈriːt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈri.te/, [peˈriːt̪e]

Adverb

perītē (comparative perītius, superlative perītissimē)

1. skillfully, expertly
2. cleverly

Antonyms

• imperītē

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peˈriː.te/, [pɛˈriːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈri.te/, [peˈriːt̪e]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) 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.

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

perite (Cyrillic spelling перите)

1. second-person plural imperative of prati

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈɾite/ [peˈɾi.t̪e]

Verb

perite

1. inflection of peritar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative