peritus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of the unattested verb *perior, a root found in experior (“try, test, experience”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peˈriː.tus/, [pɛˈriː.tʊs]

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Adjective

perītus (feminine perīta, neuter perītum); first/second declension

1. skillful, skilled, expert, experienced, practised
2. clever, skilfully constructed

Inflection

First/second declension.

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

• perītē
• perītia

Descendants

• Italian: perito
• Portuguese: perito
• Spanish: perito

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “peritus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “peritus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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