correctus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of corrigō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /korˈrek.tus/, [kɔrˈrɛk.tʊs]
Participle
correctus m (feminine correcta, neuter correctum); first/second declension
- corrected
- straightened
- improved
- healed
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | correctus | correcta | correctum | correctī | correctae | correcta | |
| Genitive | correctī | correctae | correctī | correctōrum | correctārum | correctōrum | |
| Dative | correctō | correctae | correctō | correctīs | correctīs | correctīs | |
| Accusative | correctum | correctam | correctum | correctōs | correctās | correcta | |
| Ablative | correctō | correctā | correctō | correctīs | correctīs | correctīs | |
| Vocative | correcte | correcta | correctum | correctī | correctae | correcta | |
Derived terms
- correctio
- corrector
Descendants
- Asturian: correutu, correctu
- Catalan: correcte
- Dutch: correct
- English: correct
- French: correct
- Friulian: coret
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: koretu
- Italian: corretto
- Occitan: corrècte
- Old Portuguese: correyto
- Old Spanish: correcho
- Papiamentu: korekto
- Portuguese: correto
- Romanian: corect
- 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