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peritus.

skillful, skilled, expert, experienced, practised (+ genitive or in + ablative or ad + accusative)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

adj[pɛˈriː.tʊs]Classical-Latin[peˈriː.tus]

  1. skillful, skilled, expert, experienced, practised (+ genitive or in + ablative or ad + accusative)

    adjective · declension-1 · declension-2

  2. clever, skilfully constructed

    adjective · declension-1 · declension-2
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der. Latin *perior Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Latin -ītus ? Latin peritus Uncertain. Perhaps the perfect active participle of an unattested fourth conjugation verb *perior, a root found in experior (“try, test, experience”). De Vaan connects the word to pariō (“to prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-. Compare perīculum.

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