perditus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of perdō.

Participle

perditus (feminine perdita, neuter perditum, comparative perditior, superlative perditissimus, adverb perditē); first/second-declension participle

1. destroyed, ruined
2. wasted, squandered
3. lost

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	perditus	perdita	perditum		perditī	perditae	perdita
genitive	perditī	perditae	perditī		perditōrum	perditārum	perditōrum
dative	perditō	perditae	perditō		perditīs
accusative	perditum	perditam	perditum		perditōs	perditās	perdita
ablative	perditō	perditā	perditō		perditīs
vocative	perdite	perdita	perditum		perditī	perditae	perdita

Derived terms

• imperditus

Descendants

• Asturian: perda
• Catalan: pèrdua
• French: perte
• Friulian: pierdite
• Galician: perda
• Italian: perdita
• Norman: pèrte (Jersey)
• Occitan: pèrda, pèrdia
• Piedmontese: pèrdita
• Portuguese: perda
• Romanian: pierde, pierdere
• Sardinian: pérdidu, pérdiu
• Spanish: pérdida, perta

References

• “perditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “perditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "perditus", 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)
• “perditus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a critical position; a hopeless state of affairs: res dubiae, perditae, afflictae
    
  • misfortune, adversity: res adversae, afflictae, perditae
    
  • a lost book of which fragments (relliquiae, not fragmenta) remain: liber perditus
    
  • a depraved, abandoned character: homo perditus
    
  • moral corruption (not corruptela morum): mores corrupti or perditi