Etymology

per

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Today it means: For each. Full definition →

Latin per ← Proto-Italic *per ← Proto-Indo-European *pér
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per · preposition1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Italic*per
  4. Latinper
  5. English todayper

From Latin per (“through, during”), from Proto-Indo-European *per. Doublet of par.

per · pronoun, determiner2

Clipping of person, coined by American novelist and poet Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979)

Words from the same roots

Latinper all →

parparamountparamourparavailparboilper centumper curiamper diemper stirpes

Proto-Indo-European*per all →

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