correctus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of corrigō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔrˈreːk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [korˈrɛk.tus]

Participle

corrēctus (feminine corrēcta, neuter corrēctum); first/second-declension participle

1. corrected
2. straightened
3. improved
4. healed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	corrēctus	corrēcta	corrēctum		corrēctī	corrēctae	corrēcta
genitive	corrēctī	corrēctae	corrēctī		corrēctōrum	corrēctārum	corrēctōrum
dative	corrēctō	corrēctae	corrēctō		corrēctīs
accusative	corrēctum	corrēctam	corrēctum		corrēctōs	corrēctās	corrēcta
ablative	corrēctō	corrēctā	corrēctō		corrēctīs
vocative	corrēcte	corrēcta	corrēctum		corrēctī	corrēctae	corrēcta

Derived terms

• corrēctiō
• corrēctor

Descendants

Inherited forms:

• Asturian: correchu
• Old Galician-Portuguese: correyto
  • Portuguese: correito ⇒ escorreito
• Old Spanish: correcho

Borrowings:

• → Asturian: correutu, correctu
• → Catalan: correcte
• → Danish: korrekt
• → Middle French: correct
  • → Dutch: correct
    • → Indonesian: korèk
    • → Papiamentu: korèkt
  • French: correct
    • → English: correct
      • → Tamil: கரெக்ட் (karekṭ)
    • → Romanian: corect
• → Friulian: coret
• → West Frisian: krekt
• → German: korrekt
• → Hungarian: korrekt
• → Interlingua: correcte
• → Italian: corretto
• → Occitan: corrècte
• → Papiamentu: korekto (via Spanish and Portuguese)
• → Portuguese: correto, correcto (pre-1990 spelling)
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: koretu
• → Spanish: correcto

References

• “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.