per

Etymology 1
From, from. .

Preposition

 * 1) For each.
 * 2) To each, in each.
 * 3)  By the, by means of the, via the, through the.
 * 4) In accordance with, as per
 * 1) To each, in each.
 * 2)  By the, by means of the, via the, through the.
 * 3) In accordance with, as per
 * 1)  By the, by means of the, via the, through the.
 * 2) In accordance with, as per
 * 1) In accordance with, as per
 * 1) In accordance with, as per
 * 1) In accordance with, as per

Usage notes

 * In senses equivalent to "each", per is typically followed by a singular noun phrase with no determiner.
 * Take one pill per day, not *Take one pill per a day.
 * The common exception is its use with plural noun phrases, although these are almost always limited to large round numbers such as 100, 1,000, 10,000...
 * The abortion rate in the U.S. has dropped since 1980 from nearly 30 per 1,000 women of childbearing age to less than 20.
 * In medical senses, per is followed by the name of an orifice in Latin rather than English.

Synonyms

 * ,, , ⅌ UTF-16 0x214C, introduced in Unicode 4.1.0 (March 2005)

Related terms

 * (as in perfect, perfection and perplex)

Translations

 * Albanian: për
 * Arabic: لِكُلّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: لكل
 * Armenian:, ամեն մի
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: για κάθε
 * Ancient: κατά
 * Hebrew: לכל
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: по, на
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: per
 * Persian: برای هر
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Arabic: فِي كُلّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: في كل
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: во, на
 * Persian: در هر
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Arabic: بِوَاسِطَة,, عَنّ طَرِيق
 * Egyptian Arabic: عن طريق
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, par voie,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: по
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic:, لِأَجْل
 * Egyptian Arabic: عشان
 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew: על פי
 * Italian:, in accordo
 * Macedonian: по
 * Polish: zgodnie z,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: (abbreviated pr.) (1,2)
 * Spanish:

Etymology 2
shortening of, coined by Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979)

Pronoun

 * 1)  They.
 * 2)  Them
 * 1)  Them

Synonyms

 * they
 * ey, e, sie, shi, ze

Derived terms

 * perself

Adjective

 * 1)  Belonging to per, their.

Synonyms

 * their
 * eir, hir

Derived terms

 * pers

Etymology
, from.

Preposition

 * 1) through, via:
 * 2) at, during, in:
 * 3) during, for:
 * 4) because, because of:
 * 5) by:
 * 6) for each; for every
 * 7) a, for, :

Usage notes

 * In eastern dialects, when the preposition is followed by a masculine definite article,,  or , it is contracted with it to the forms  or  respectively.

Etymology 1
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) hair

Etymology 2
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) pear tree

Etymology
From.

Preposition

 * 1) through, out (through somewhere)
 * 2) by means of, by way of, by, via
 * 3) for, during (a period of time)
 * 4) per, each
 * 1) for, during (a period of time)
 * 2) per, each
 * 1) per, each

Etymology 1
From, from , a borrowing from , plural of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) pears

Etymology 2
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cauldron

Etymology
, from, appropriating the senses of Latin as well.

Preposition

 * 1) through, via:
 * 2) at, during, in:
 * 3) during, for:
 * 4) because, because of:
 * 5) by:
 * 6) for each; for every
 * 7) a, for, :
 * 1) for each; for every
 * 2) a, for, :

Usage notes

 * When the preposition is followed by a masculine definite article,   or, it is contracted with it to the forms  or  respectively. If  would be elided to the form  because it is before a word beginning with a vowel, the elision to  takes precedence over contracting to.

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  bear

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  berry

Etymology
From, from , a borrowing from , plural of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) pears

Preposition
(abbreviated pr.)


 * 1) For each; for every

Preposition

 * 1) For each; for every; per
 * 2) by means of
 * 1) by means of

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Preposition

 * 1) by means of, with

Etymology
From.

Preposition

 * 1) per for each, to each
 * 2)  per indicating date, due date, date of maturity, etc.
 * 1)  per indicating date, due date, date of maturity, etc.
 * 1)  per indicating date, due date, date of maturity, etc.

Preposition

 * 1) per, via, by, in acccordance with

Usage notes

 * per is followed by a noun in either the accusative or dative case. No semantic distinction is made between the cases here. Examples from Duden: per ersten / erstem Januar, "as of the first of January"; per eingeschriebenen / eingeschriebenem Brief, "by registered letter".

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1)  action, suit, lawsuit

Etymology 2
From.

Adverb

 * 1) per
 * 2)  divided by
 * 1)  divided by

Etymology
, ultimately from, from.

Preposition

 * 1) by means of, by, with some means
 * 2)  multiplied by, times
 * 1)  multiplied by, times

Etymology 1
From, a contraction of , from , from , from , from , from. The sense "spring" is derived from the ability of feathers to resume their shape when bent.

Noun

 * 1) spring, a mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
 * 2)  arc lamp.
 * 1)  arc lamp.

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Preposition

 * 1) per,
 * 2) for each.
 * 3) to each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).
 * 4) by the, by means of the, via the, through the.
 * 5) since
 * 1) by the, by means of the, via the, through the.
 * 2) since
 * 1) since

Etymology
From, which is the predecessor of , , and.

Preposition

 * 1) through, during, throughout
 * 2) by (the agency of), through, by means of
 * 3) per, for each
 * 1) by (the agency of), through, by means of
 * 2) per, for each
 * 1) per, for each

Etymology
From.

Preposition

 * 1) for
 * 2) to indicates direction
 * 3) through
 * 4) in or on
 * 5) by
 * 6) with
 * 7) as
 * 1) in or on
 * 2) by
 * 3) with
 * 4) as
 * 1) with
 * 2) as
 * 1) as

Usage notes

 * When followed by the definite article, per can be combined with the article to give the following combined forms (old-fashioned, very rarely used, except for pel, pei):


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 * per +
 * per +
 * per +
 * per +
 * per +
 * per +
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 * per +
 * per +
 * per +
 * per +
 * }
 * per +
 * per +
 * per +
 * }
 * per +
 * }
 * }
 * }

Etymology
From.

Preposition

 * 1) for
 * 2) through
 * 3) in or on
 * 4) by
 * 5) with
 * 6) as

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional.

Preposition

 * 1) through, by means of
 * 2) throughout, during
 * 1) throughout, during
 * 1) throughout, during

Descendants

 * Eastern Romance:
 * Italo-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Italo-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:
 * Rhaeto-Romance:

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Preposition

 * 1) through
 * 2) during

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) hair

Etymology 1
From,.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology 3
From.

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bear

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) berry

Etymology
Borrowed from (related to native ).

Preposition
(abbreviated pr.)


 * 1) For each, for every,.

Etymology
Borrowed from (related to native ).

Preposition
(abbreviated pr.)


 * 1) For each, for every,.

Etymology
, from, from.

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1)  abdomen, belly

Etymology
From.

Preposition

 * 1) per, by, through

Preposition

 * 1) For each; for every

Noun

 * 1) loss

Noun

 * 1) page