correctus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perfect passive participle of corrigō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /korˈreːk.tus/, [kɔrˈreːkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /korˈrek.tus/, [korˈrɛkt̪us]
Participle[edit]
corrēctus (feminine corrēcta, neuter corrēctum); first/second-declension participle
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | corrēctus | corrēcta | corrēctum | corrēctī | corrēctae | corrēcta | |
| Genitive | corrēctī | corrēctae | corrēctī | corrēctōrum | corrēctārum | corrēctōrum | |
| Dative | corrēctō | corrēctō | corrēctīs | ||||
| Accusative | corrēctum | corrēctam | corrēctum | corrēctōs | corrēctās | corrēcta | |
| Ablative | corrēctō | corrēctā | corrēctō | corrēctīs | |||
| Vocative | corrēcte | corrēcta | corrēctum | corrēctī | corrēctae | corrēcta | |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Old Galician-Portuguese: correyto
- Old Spanish: correcho
- → Asturian: correutu, correctu
- → Catalan: correcte
- → Dutch: correct
- → English: correct
- → French: correct
- → Friulian: coret
- → West Frisian: krekt
- → Interlingua: correcte
- → Italian: corretto
- → Occitan: corrècte
- → Papiamentu: korekto (via Spanish and Portuguese)
- → Portuguese: correto
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: koretu
- → Romanian: corect
- → Spanish: correcto
References[edit]
- “correctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “correctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- correctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.