English → Latin
“perish” in Latin
pereōto perish, pass away, die, be ruined; to vanish, disappear, come to nothing; to leak; to be absorbedintereōto go among, become lost in; to disappear, vanish; to be ruined, undoneoccidōto fall down; to go down, set; to perish, die, pass awaycadōto fall, to fall out; to fall in battle, die, be slain, fall so as to be unable to rise; to be frustrated, fail, to be oconcidōto fall down or together, tumble to the ground, collapse, break down, drop; to fall down lifeless in combat, to be slaug
The English word perish itself goes back to Latin eō, through pereo.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
perish
perire (to lose life prematurely): interire (to cease to exist; stronger than perire, and used of living beings, or of things without life): occidere (to disappear; PROP., of living beings when they die, and figuratively, of beings without life; e.g., spes occidit): cadere, concidere (to sink to decay or ruin, of things; e.g., a state, a house, a family): tolli (of beings, to disappear) to perish in the waves, aqua mergi: to perish by shipwreck, naufragio perire or interire.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for perish?
- The usual Latin words for “perish” are pereō, intereō, occidō; also cadō, concidō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.