Etymograph

English

perdition

Perdition comes from Old French perdiciun ‘the loss of one's soul, often to Satan’, from Late Latin perditio ‘ruin, destruction’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘to give’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-‘to give’root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEperdo‘to destroy, to lose’
  3. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEperditio‘ruin, destruction’
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400perdiciun‘the loss of one's soul, often to Satan’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500perdicioun
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2009perdition

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-‘to give’root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEperdo‘to destroy, to lose’
  3. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEperditio‘ruin, destruction’
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400perdiciun‘the loss of one's soul, often to Satan’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500perdicioun
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2009perdition

Earliest quotation: 2009, Ov Fire and the Void: “I son ov perdition / From sheer nothingness transgressed”.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘to give’

data, date, add, die, rent, addition, dose, delicious, surrender, donate, vent, vendor, tradition, donor, treason, dow, render, donation, rendezvous, anecdote, dowry, antidote, condone, addendum, additive, rendition, dowager, endow, dative, dower, dacha, dati, sconce, 39 more

Today it means

noun Eternal damnation.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- / perdition

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