different between perdition vs astray

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French perdiciun, from Late Latin perditio, from Latin perdo (“I destroy, I lose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??(?).?d?.??n/
• Hyphenation: per?di?tion
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

perdition (countable and uncountable, plural perditions)

1. Eternal damnation.
2. Hell.
3. Absolute ruin.

Synonyms

• abyss
• Hades
• inferno
• netherworld
• underworld
• hell

Translations

Anagrams

• direption, tropidine

French

Etymology

From Old French perdiciun, borrowed from Late Latin perditio, perditionem, from Latin perdo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.di.sj??/

Noun

perdition f (plural perditions)

1. perdition

Related terms

• perdre

Further reading

• “perdition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English astraien or by apheresis straien, from Old French estraier (“to stray”), from late Medieval Latin extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vag?r? (“to wander, stray”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??st?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Adverb

astray

1. In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.

Derived terms

• go astray
• lead astray

Related terms

• stray
• estray

Translations

Further reading

• astray in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• astray at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “astray”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

References

Anagrams

• 'Straya, Straya, atrays, tayras, yartas, yatras