periculum

Learned borrowing from Latin periculum. Doublet of peril.

periculum (plural pericula)

1. (law) accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation
   • 2011, Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, The Arrest of Ships in Private International Law, →ISBN, page 87:

     In English law, along with the characterization of ship arrest as an inherent part of the in rem claim, there is no need to show periculum in mora.

• perīclum

Inherited from Proto-Italic *perīklom, derived from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“to go through, carry forth, attempt”).

Compare perītus for the suffix. Also related to experior.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛˈriː.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈriː.ku.lum]

perīculum n (genitive perīculī); second declension

1. trial, experiment, attempt, proof, essay
2. risk, hazard, danger, peril
3. ruin, destruction
4. (law) trial, action, suit
5. writ of judgment or judgement, sentence
6. (attack of) sickness

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• (experiment, proof, trial): experientia, experīmentum, tentāmentum, tentātiō
• (risk): discrīmen
• (judgment or judgement): iūdicium
• (suit, trial): causa

• “periculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “periculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "periculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “periculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to run a risk; to tempt Providence: fortunam periclitari (periculum facere)
    
  • to be in danger: in periculo esse or versari
    
  • to find oneself in a hazardous position: in pericula incidere, incurrere
    
  • dangers threaten a man: pericula alicui impendent, imminent
    
  • many dangers hem a person in; one meets new risks at every turn: pericula in or ad aliquem redundant
    
  • to incur danger, risk: pericula subire, adire, suscipere
    
  • to expose oneself to peril: periculis se offerre
    
  • to endanger, imperil a person or thing: aliquem, aliquid in periculum (discrimen) adducere, vocare
    
  • to endanger, imperil a person or thing: alicui periculum creare, conflare
    
  • to recklessly hazard one's life: in periculum capitis, in discrimen vitae se inferre
    
  • at the critical moment: in ipso periculi discrimine
    
  • to rescue from peril: aliquem ex periculo eripere, servare
    
  • to avoid no risk in order to..: nullum periculum recusare pro
    
  • to surmount dangers: periculis perfungi
    
  • to make trial of; to risk: periculum facere alicuius rei
    
  • to try one's strength with the enemy; to try issue of battle: periculum hostis facere
    
  • the position is critical: res est in periculo, in summo discrimine
    
• periculum in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “pariō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 445-446