perpetuate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /pəˈpɛt͡ʃʊət/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /pəˈpɛtjʊət/
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• General-American: /pɚˈpɛt͡ʃəˌweɪt/
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• General-American: /-t͡ʃəwət/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /pəˈpɛt͡ʃʊeɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-ˈpɛtjueɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: P ER0 P EH1 CH AH0 W EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From earlier preparat (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).

(16th century) From earlier perpetuat, learned borrowing from Latin perpetuātus (“perpetuated”), perfect passive participle of perpetuō (“to cause to continue uninterruptedly, to proceed with continually, to make perpetual, perpetuate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from perpetuus (“everlasting, perpetual”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from per- (“thoroughly, very”) + petō (“to ask, request; to look for; to make for (somewhere)”) + -uus (forms adjectives from verbal stems), literally “that is asked with great zeal, over and over again”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peth2- (“to spread out; to fly”). Cognates * Catalan perpetuar * Italian perpetuare * Old French perpetué (adjective) (Middle French perpetué (adjective)); Middle French perpétuer (verb) (modern French perpétuer (verb)) * Old Occitan perpetuar * Portuguese perpetuar * Spanish perpetuar

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَبَّدَ (ʔabbada) — to make perpetual
• Arabic: أَدَامَ (ʔadāma) — to make perpetual
• Arabic: خَلَّدَ (ḵallada) — to make perpetual
• Bulgarian: увековечавам (uvekovečavam) — to make perpetual
• Catalan: perpetuar — to make perpetual
• Chinese Mandarin: 使......永久化 (shǐ... yǒngjiǔhuà) — to make perpetual
• Dutch: vereeuwigen — to make perpetual
• Egyptian: s-r-wD-w-D:T12 (srwḏ) — to make perpetual
• Finnish: säilyttää — to make perpetual
• French: perpétuer — to make perpetual
• French: pérenniser — to make perpetual
• German: perpetuieren — to make perpetual
• German: verewigen — to make perpetual
• Hebrew: הנציח (hintsíakh) — to make perpetual
• Italian: perpetuàre — to make perpetual
• Italian: eternàre — to make perpetual
• Italian: perennare — to make perpetual
• Italian: rivìvere — to make perpetual
• Latin: perpetuitō — to make perpetual
• Latin: perpetuō — to make perpetual
• Latin: aeternō — to make perpetual
• Macedonian: овеко́вечи (ovekóveči) — to make perpetual
• Macedonian: овекове́чува (ovekovéčuva) — to make perpetual
• Polish: uwieczniać — to make perpetual
• Polish: uwiecznić — to make perpetual
• Portuguese: perpetuar — to make perpetual
• Romanian: perpetua — to make perpetual
• Russian: увекове́чивать (uvekovéčivatʹ) — to make perpetual
• Russian: увекове́чить (uvekovéčitʹ) — to make perpetual
• Spanish: perpetuar — to make perpetual
• Swedish: föreviga — to make perpetual
• Swedish: vidmakthålla — to make perpetual
• Turkish: ölümsüzleştirmek — to make perpetual
• Ukrainian: уві́чнювати (uvíčnjuvaty) — to make perpetual
• Ukrainian: уві́чнити (uvíčnyty) — to make perpetual
• Chinese Mandarin: 使......永存 (shǐ... yǒngcún) — to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion
• Finnish: säilyttää — to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion
• Finnish: suojella — to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion
• French: pérenniser — to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion
• Finnish: jatkaa — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Finnish: pitkittää — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• French: maintenir — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• German: perpetuieren — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• German: aufrechterhalten — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• German: bestendigen — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• German: festschreiben — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• German: verankern — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• German: zementieren — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Hungarian: állandósít — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Hungarian: életben tart — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Hungarian: fenntart — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Latin: aeternō — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Latin: prōrogō — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Macedonian: о́држи (ódrži) — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Portuguese: perpetuar — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Russian: продлевать существование (prodlevatʹ suščestvovanije) — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Russian: закреплять (zakrepljatʹ) — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Spanish: perpetuar — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Swedish: bevara — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Turkish: kalıcılaştırmak — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Turkish: ölümsüzleştirmek — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Vietnamese: nối — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce
• Welsh: parhau — to prolong the existence of (something) by repetition — see also reinforce