perituro

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin peritūrus, future active participle of pereō (to disappear; to perish).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pe.riˈtu.ro/
  • Rhymes: -uro
  • Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧tù‧ro

Adjective

perituro (feminine peritura, masculine plural perituri, feminine plural periture) (literary)

  1. mortal
    Synonyms: morituro, mortale
    Antonyms: immortale, (literary) imperituro
  2. (figurative) transient, passing
    Synonyms: caduco, effimero, fugace, fuggevole, (literary) transeunte, transitorio
    Antonyms: eterno, (literary) immortale, (literary) imperituro, inestinguibile, perenne, perpetuo

Derived terms

Further reading

  • perituro in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • perituro in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • peritùro in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • perituro in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • perituro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Pronunciation

Participle

peritūrō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of peritūrus
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