Depereo, déperis, pen. corr. deperíui, vel deperij, depéritum, pen. cor. deperîre. To perish: to die: to be lost: to be exceedingly in loue with one.Deperierunt naues. Cæsar. The shippes perished.Scheda ne qua depereat.Cic.That no paper were lost.Decor lachrymis deperit.Ouid.Beautie is loste with weeping. Deperire. pro Mori. Cic.To die.Si is, cuius vsus fructus esset deperisset.Cic. Deperite aliquam. pro Vehementer amare. Plaut.To bee exceedingly in loue with a woman.Deperire aliquem amore.Plaut.To loue exceedingly.Deperite amore sponsæ vel mulierculæ.Liui.Amore impotente deperire aliquem. Catul. Deperit lapor. Plin. The taste is loste or gone.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-pĕrĕo, ii (fut. deperiet for -ibit, Vulg. Eccl. 31, 7), 4, v. n., to go to ruin, perish, die; to be lost, undone. I. In gen. (class.): neque adaugescit quicquam neque deperit inde (sc. de materia), Lucr. 2, 296: tempestate naves, Caes. B. G. 5, 23: perexigua pars illius exercitus superest, magna pars deperiit, id. B. C. 3, 87; cf. id. B. G. 7, 31, 4: si servus deperisset, had been lost (by death or flight), Cic. Top. 3, 15: ut scida ne qua depereat, id. Att. 1, 20 fin.: qui deperiit minor uno mense vel anno,
has died
, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 40 et saep.: (auro) rerum uni nihil igne deperit, Plin. 33, 3, 19, 59: decor vultus ejus deperiit,
faded
, Vulg. Jacob. 1, 11.—II. In partic., to be desperately in love with, dying with love for a person (not in Cic., neither in Verg., Hor., nor Ovid, but freq. in Plaut.).—Constr.: aliquem (amore), more rarely alicujus amore, in aliquo; and absol.: ut hic te efflictim deperit, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 19: aliquam (with deamare), id. Ep. 2, 2, 35: aliquam, id. Cas. 1, 1, 19; id. Bac. 3, 3, 66 et saep.; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 14; Catull. 100, 2: amore aliquam deperire, Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 43; cf.: illum deperit impotente amore, Catull. 35, 12: amore mulierculae, Liv. 27, 15; cf.: amore sui, Suet. Vesp. 22: cum laceratum corpus, in quo deperibat, intueretur, Curt. 8, 6, 8.—Absol.: rogas? deperit, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 62.