peritus

Latin peritus

peritus (plural periti)

1. (Christianity) A Roman Catholic theologian attending an ecumenical council to give advice.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peˈriː.tus/, [pɛˈriːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈri.tus/, [peˈriːt̪us]

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

First/second-declension adjective.

• imperītus
• perītē
• perītia

• Catalan: perit, pèrit
• → English: perite
• Spanish: perito
• Galician: perito
• Italian: perito
• Piedmontese: perì
• Portuguese: perito
• Sicilian: piritu

• “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, 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