peractus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Perfect passive participle of peragō.

Participle

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perāctus (feminine perācta, neuter perāctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. pierced, transfixed
  2. traversed
  3. harassed
  4. carried through, executed, finished, accomplished, completed
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.667–668:
      vīlice, dā requiem terrae sēmente perāctā;
      dā requiem, terram quī coluēre, virīs.
      Overseer, give rest to the farmland, the sowing having been completed;
      and give rest to the men who tilled the land.

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

References

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  • peractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • peractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • peractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • after a year has elapsed: anno peracto, circumacto, interiecto, intermisso