peritus

English

Etymology

From Latin perītus (“skillful”).

Noun

peritus (plural periti)

1. (Christianity) A Roman Catholic theologian attending an ecumenical council to give advice.
   • 2013 February 12, Tracey Rowland, “Pope Benedict XVI: God's Rottweiler or the Church's German shepherd?”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation‎^[1]:

     Among the leading periti at Vatican II, there was an almost universal belief that this theological diet was inadequate for dealing with the problems of the late-twentieth century.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛˈriː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈriː.t̪us]

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.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	perītus	perīta	perītum		perītī	perītae	perīta
genitive	perītī	perītae	perītī		perītōrum	perītārum	perītōrum
dative	perītō	perītae	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

• Asturian: péritu
• 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^[2], 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