Peril

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Middle English: from Old French, from Latin peric(u)lum ‘danger’, from the base of experiri ‘to try’.

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From Middle English peril, from Old French peril, from Latin perīculum. Doublet of periculum.

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peril (n.)

"danger, risk, hazard, jeopardy, exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction," c. 1200, from Old French peril "danger, risk" (10c.), from Latin periculum "an attempt, trial, experiment; risk, danger," with instrumentive suffix -culum and first element from PIE *peri-tlo-, suffixed form of root *per- (3) "to try, risk."