per-

Borrowed from Latin per and per-.

per-

1. (non-productive) In verbs: denoting the sense "through", as in perforate.
2. (non-productive) In verbs: denoting the sense "thoroughly", as in perfect.
3. (non-productive) In verbs: denoting the sense "to destruction", as in pervert.
4. (non-productive) In adjectives and adverbs: denoting the sense "extremely", as in perfervid.
5. (chemistry) Forming nouns and adjectives denoting the maximum proportion of one element in a compound, as in peroxide.
6. (chemistry) Added to the name of an element in a polyatomic ion denote the number of atoms of that element (usually four).

• (extremely): pellucid, perfervid

Borrowed from Old French per (modern French par).

per-

1. (non-productive) Denoting the sense "by" or "per", as in perchance or perhaps.

• EPR, ERP, RPE, Rep, Rep., pre, pre-, rep

From Latin per-.

per-

1. used to make superlatives of adjectives

   perguapu

   very beautiful

   perblancu

   very white

• -ísimu

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀ. Cognate with Tagalog pag-.

per-

1. Used to form nouns from verbs conjugated with ber-

From per (“through”).

per-

1. Used to make adjectives or verbs that are "very" something.

   multī (“many”) → permultī (“very many”)

2. Used to form verbs that are intensive or completive, conveying the idea of doing something all the way through or entirely.

• -ior
• -issimus

• IPA^(key): /pə(r)/

per-

1. abstraction, place, goal, result