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peremptory

/pəˈemptəi/pur-EMP-tur-ee
/pɚˈɛmptɚi/pur-EMP-tur-ee

Meaningtaking away completely

Common meaning: allowing no refusal

‘through’ + ‘to take’ → peremptory

Journey through time

  1. Latinemō, ēmī, ēmptum‘to take’
  2. Frenchperemptoire
  3. Englishperemptory‘allowing no refusal’ · today

per- also in: percentperceptperfidyperfumeperjury

empt also in: exemptpromptredeempremiumredemption

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin emō ‘to take; to buy’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry emō, p. 643 · dictionary scan

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