per ilとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɛɹɪl/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈpɛɹəl/
• 韻: -ɛɹɪl, -ɛɹəl

名詞

peril (countable and uncountable, plural perils)

1. A situation of serious and immediate danger.

   Your life is in peril.

2. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

   the perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc.)

3. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.

同意語

• danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk, threat
• See also Thesaurus:danger

派生語

関連する語

• imperil
• perilous
• Category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (risk) not found

動詞

peril (third-person singular simple present perils, present participle (US) periling or (UK) perilling, simple past and past participle (US) periled or (UK) perilled)

1. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk. [from 16th c.]
   • 1830, Robert Hayne, Speech in the United States Senate:

     And are we, Mr. President, who stood by our country then, who threw open our coffers, who bared our bosoms, who freely perilled all in that conflict, to be reproached with want of attachment to the Union?

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XIV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

     "I will have nothing to do with this matter, whatever it is. Do you think I am going to peril my reputation for you?"

アナグラム

• piler, plier, prile

語源

From Old French peril, from Latin perīculum.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɛril/, /pɛˈriːl/, /ˈpɛrəl/, /ˈparəl/

名詞

peril (plural perilles)

1. Danger, risk, peril; something that is potentially harmful or risky:
   1. A location where danger, risk, or peril is present or likely.
   2. A thing or enterprise which creates peril; anything which creates or which is of peril.
   3. Sinfulness; religious threat or danger.
2. (Late Middle English) Bad fortune; unluckiness or mischance.

関連する語

• perilous
• perilously

派生した語

• English: peril
• Scots: peril

参照

• “perī̆l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 July 2018.