Etymograph

English

per-

Borrowed from Latin per and per-.

Another origin of per-

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*per-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*per‘through, by means of’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEper‘through, by means of’
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400par‘by; via’
  5. Englishtodayper-

Today it means

prefix In verbs: denoting the sense "through", as in perforate.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “per-”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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