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- Latin · borrowed fromper sē
- Latin · borrowed fromper sē
- English todayper se
Borrowed from Latin per sē (“by itself”), from per (“by, through”) and sē (“itself, himself, herself, themselves”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
per se
Today it means: Without determination by or involvement of extraneous factors; by its very nature. Full definition →
Latin per sē