Latin

Verb

perīclitor ‎(present infinitive perī****ārī, perfect active perī****ātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I try, prove or test
2. I risk or endanger
3. I attempt

Inflection

Descendants

• French: péricliter
• Portuguese: periclitar
• Spanish: periclitar
• Italian: periclitare

References

• periclitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• periclitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “periclitor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to run a risk; to tempt Providence: fortunam periclitari (periculum facere)
    
  • a man's life is at stake, is in very great danger: salus, caput, vita alicuius agitur, periclitatur, in discrimine est or versatur