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- Latin · derived fromperdo“to destroy, to lose”
- Late Latin · derived fromperditio
- Old French · derived fromperdiciun
- Middle English · inherited fromperdicioun
- English todayperdition
From Middle English perdicioun, from Old French perdiciun, from Late Latin perditio, from Latin perdo (“to destroy, to lose”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.