PER
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per¹
- /pɜː/ Australia, UK
- /pɝ/ US
- /pɛr/ Scotland
- /pøː/ New Zealand
- /peː/
- /pɛː/
- /pɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like purr (fern–fir–fur merger), pair, pare, pear (all fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Italic *per
Latin perder.
English per
From Latin per (“through, during”), from Proto-Indo-European *per. Doublet of par.
preposition
- For each. Admission is £10 per person.
- To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units). 12 inches per foot
- By the, through the (with name of body part in Latin). Introduce the endoscope per nasum.
- In accordance with, as per. I parked my car at the curb per your request.
- According to. Bucks trading for Patrick Beverley, per sources
per²
- /pɜː/ Australia, UK
- /pɝ/ US
- /pɛr/ Scotland
- /pøː/ New Zealand
- /peː/
- /pɛː/
- /pɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like purr (fern–fir–fur merger), pair, pare, pear (all fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Clipping of person, coined by American novelist and poet Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979)
pronoun per · pers · perself
- They (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she. This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?
- Them (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and her. This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?
determiner
- Belonging to per; their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her. Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.
PER³
noun
- Initialism of protein efficiency ratio.protein efficiency ratio
- Initialism of price-earnings ratio.price-earnings ratio