perdition

English

Etymology

From Middle English perdicioun, from Old French perdiciun, from Late Latin perditio, from Latin perdo (“I destroy, I lose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɜː(ɹ)ˈdɪ.ʃən/
• Hyphenation: per‧di‧tion
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

• Audio (US):

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Noun

perdition (countable and uncountable, plural perditions)

1. Eternal damnation.
   • 2009, Behemoth, Ov Fire and the Void:

     I son ov perdition / From sheer nothingness transgressed

2. Hell.
3. Absolute ruin; downfall.

   Their decision to buy stocks just before the crisis led to their perdition.

Synonyms

• abyss
• Hades
• inferno
• netherworld
• underworld
• hell

Antonyms

• salvation

Translations

eternal damnation

• Bulgarian: ад (bg) m (ad)
• Danish: evig (da) fordømmelse
• Dutch: eeuwige (nl) verdoemenis (nl)
• Esperanto: pereo
• Finnish: kadotus (fi)
• German: ewige (de) Verdammnis (de) f
• Hungarian: örök (hu) kárhozat (hu)
• Icelandic: glötun (is) f
• Japanese: 劫罰 (ごうばつ, gōbatsu)
• Macedonian: про́клетство n (prókletstvo)
• Persian: نفرین ابدی (nefrin-e abadi)
• Polish: wieczne potępienie n
• Portuguese: perdição (pt) f
• Russian: прокля́тие (ru) (prokljátije)
• Serbo-Croatian: prokletstvo (sh) n
• Spanish: perdición (es) f
• Swedish: evig (sv) fördömelse (sv)
• Turkish: cehennem (tr)

hell

• Bulgarian: ад (bg) m (ad)
• Danish: helvede n
• Dutch: hel (nl)
• Finnish: helvetti (fi)
• French: enfer (fr) m
• German: Hölle (de) f
• Japanese: 地獄 (ja) (jigoku)
• Macedonian: пе́кол m (pékol), ад (mk) m (ad)
• Malay: neraka
• Persian: دوزخ (fa) (duzax)
• Polish: piekło (pl) n
• Portuguese: inferno (pt) m
• Russian: гее́нна (ru) f (gejénna)
• Serbo-Croatian: pakao (sh) m
• Spanish: infierno (es) m
• Swedish: helvete (sv)
• Turkish: cehennem (tr)

absolute ruin

• Bulgarian: гибел (bg) f (gibel)
• Danish: undergang c
• Dutch: verderf (nl)
• Finnish: tuho (fi)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐍃 f (fralusts)
• Icelandic: glötun (is) f
• Japanese: 衰滅 (すいめつ, suimetsu)
• Macedonian: про́паст f (própast), ги́бел f (gíbel)
• Persian: نابودی (fa) (nâbudi), دمار (fa) (damâr)
• Portuguese: perdição (pt) f
• Russian: ги́бель (ru) f (gíbelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: propast (sh) f
• Spanish: perdición (es) f
• Swedish: fördärv (sv) n

Anagrams

• direption, tropidine

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French perdiciun, borrowed from Late Latin perditiōnem, from Latin perdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

perdition f (plural perditions)

1. perdition

Related terms

• perdre

Further reading

• “perdition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.