perpetrate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin perpetratus, past participle of perpetrare (“to carry through”), from per (“through”) + patrare (“to perform”), akin to potis (“able”), potens (“powerful”); see potent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ).pə.ˌtɹaɪt/

Verb

perpetrate (third-person singular simple present perpetrat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle perpetrated)

1. (transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.

Related terms

• perpetration
• perpetrator

Translations

to be guilty of, or responsible for; to commit

• Catalan: perpetrar (ca)
• Czech: páchat
• Danish: begå
• Finnish: tehdä (+ accusative), syyllistyä (+ illative), suorittaa (fi)
• Georgian: ჩაიდენს (čaidens)
• German: begehen (de), verüben (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: elkövet (hu)
• Icelandic: fremja
• Portuguese: perpetrar (pt)
• Romanian: comite (ro)
• Russian: совершать (ru) (soveršatʹ)
• Spanish: perpetrar (es)

Further reading

• “perpetrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “perpetrate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Italian

Verb

perpetrate

1. inflection of perpetrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural of perpetrato

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) perpetrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of perpetrō