PER SE

PRONUNCIATION: (puhr SAY)

MEANING: adverb: In or by itself; intrinsically.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin per se, translation of Greek kath auto. Earliest documented use: 1505. Perse is something different.

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PER SHE - according to my wife

PERSEU - a singular fellow who killed the Gorgon Medusa

PER SEE - how a voyeur pays