dépérir

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin dēpereō.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /de.pe.ʁiʁ/
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Verb[edit]

dépérir

  1. (intransitive) to decline, to fade away, to wither away, to go downhill
    • 1940, Out-el-Kouloub, “Zaheira”, in Trois contes de l'Amour et de la Mort, éditions Corrêa:
      L’enfant dépérissait, la mère et la grand-mère se dévoraient d’inquiétude.
      The child was in decline, the mother and the grandmother consumed themselves with worry.

Conjugation[edit]

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

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