perdition

Borrowed from Old French perdiciun, from Late Latin perditio, from Latin perdo (“I destroy, I lose”).

• IPA^(key): /pɜː(ɹ).ˈdɪ.ʃən/
• Hyphenation: per‧di‧tion
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

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perdition (countable and uncountable, plural perditions)

1. Eternal damnation.
2. Hell.
3. Absolute ruin.

• abyss
• Hades
• inferno
• netherworld
• underworld
• hell

• direption, tropidine

From Old French perdiciun, borrowed from Late Latin perditio, perditionem, from Latin perdo.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/

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perdition f (plural perditions)

1. perdition

• perdre

• “perdition” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).