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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from com- (“together”) + regere (“to make straight, rule”). Cf. also Old Galician-Portuguese correyto, which may have been inherited.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛtu
- Hyphenation: cor‧re‧to
Adjective
correto (feminine correta, masculine plural corretos, feminine plural corretas)
- correct
- Antonym: incorreto
1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A escolha de Gastão [Gastão’s choice]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 116:Achava-o superior, correcto, distincto, de uma aristrocracia innata que a encantava.- She found him superior, upstanding, distiguished, of an innate aristocracy that enchanted her.
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