perdere

perdere is a Latin form of perdo, meaning “destroy, lose; waste”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 168 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 145: … iam propulsare non posse? sin, quod bona quae Rosci fuerunt tua facta sunt, idcirco hunc illius filium studes perdere, nonne ostendis id te vereri quod praeter ceteros tu metuere non debeas ne quando liberis proscriptorum bona …

Ovid, Amores 2.14.36: Perdere nec fetus ausa leaena suos.

All forms of perdo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.