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per aspera ad astra 242
per aspera ad astra [L]. See AD ASTRA PER ASPERA.
per capita [L], lit., by heads; for each person.
percé [Fr; fern, percée], pierced; in holes; out at elbows. —il est bas
percé, he has holes in his stockings; he is low in funds.
per centum [L], by the hundred; per cent.
per contante [It], for cash.
per contra [L], on the contrary; on the other side (as of an account).
per curiam [LL], by the court (as a whole): law.
perdendo or perdendosi [It], dying away; growing fainter and slackening
speed (abbr. per., perd., or perden.): music.
per diem [L], (so much) by the day; daily.
perdoar é veneer [Pg], to forgive is to conquer.
perdre son latin [Fr], lit., to lose his Latin; be unable to make anything
(of it); rack one's brains in vain.
perdrix [Fr], partridge.
perdu [Fr; fern, perdue], adj. lit., lost; lost to view; concealed; invisible;
in ambush; mil., in a dangerously advanced position; exposed; forlorn;
n. one who is concealed or in ambush; mil., one of a forlorn hope.
—enfants perdus, lit., lost children; a forlorn hope: mil.
père [Fr], father: often used after French surname to distinguish father
from son. Cf. FILS. —père aux ecus, moneyed man. —père de famille,
father of a family; paterfamilias.
pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt [L], deuce take those who said
our smart sayings before us: Donatus.
per essentiam [L], essentially.
per eundem [L], by the same (judge).
pereunt et imputantur [L], they (the hours or years) pass away and are
counted against us: for a sundial.
per fas et nefas [L], through right and wrong.
perfervidum ingenium [L], ardent temper (or disposition).
per gradus [L], step by step.
pericoloso [It], dangerous.
periculum fortitudine evasi [L], by courage I have escaped danger.
periculum in mora [L], danger in delay.
per incuriam [L], through carelessness.
per interim [L], in the meantime.
per iocum [L], in jest.
periódico [Sp], newspaper; periodical.
periuria ridet amantum Iuppiter [L], Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries:
Tibullus.
per mare per terram [L], by (or through) sea and land.
per me [It], for my part; as for me.
per mensem [L], (so much) by the month; monthly.
per mese [It], by the month; monthly.
per mille [L], by the thousand.