correcto
Asturian
Adjective
correcto
- neuter of correctu
Latin
Participle
corrēctō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of corrēctus
Portuguese
Adjective
correcto (feminine correcta, masculine plural correctos, feminine plural correctas)
- Superseded spelling of correto. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)
Derived terms
- correctamente
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin correctus. Cf. also the inherited Old Spanish correcho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈreɡto/ [koˈreɣ̞.t̪o]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eɡto
- Syllabification: co‧rrec‧to
Adjective
correcto (feminine correcta, masculine plural correctos, feminine plural correctas)
- correct, right
- well-behaved
Antonyms
- incorrecto
Derived terms
- correctamente
- políticamente correcto
Related terms
- corregir
- corrección
Further reading
- “correcto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014