English word perish comes from Latin ire, Latin pro, Latin per-, Latin -sco, and later Latin *peresco ((Vulgar Latin) I perish.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| ire | Latin (lat) | |
| pro | Latin (lat) | About. According to. As befitting. As, like. Before. For. In front, instead of. On behalf of. |
| per- | Latin (lat) | Used to form verbs that are intensive or completive, conveying the idea of doing something all the way through or entirely.. Used to make adjectives or verbs that are "very" something. |
| -sco | Latin (lat) | Forms inchoative verbs from existing verbs, meaning "to start to (verb), to begin to (verb)". |
| pereo | Latin (lat) | I leak; I am absorbed.. I perish, pass away, die.. I pine away with love.. I vanish, disappear, come to nothing. |
| *peresco | Latin (lat) | (Vulgar Latin) I perish. |
| perir | Old French (fro) | To die; to perish. |
| perishen | Middle English (enm) | |
| perish | English (en) | (intransitive) To die; to cease to live.. (intransitive) To to decay and disappear; to wate away to nothing.. (intransitive) to decay in such a way that it can't be used for its original purpose. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to perish. |