perfecto
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish perfecto (“perfect”). Doublet of perfect.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈfɛktəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]perfecto (comparative more perfecto, superlative most perfecto)
Noun
[edit]perfecto (plural perfectos)
- A large, tapered cigar.
- 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 99.
- 'Well the only thing I can advise,' I said, 'is that you cultivate him assiduously. Waylay him and give him cigars... Tell him it's a fine day. He has a dog named Edward. Seek Edward out and pat him. Many a young man has won over the father of the girl he loves by such tactics, so why not you?'
- He agreed to do so, and in the days which followed Poskitt could not show his face in the clubhouse without having Wilmot spring out at him with perfectos.
- 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 99.
- (sports) In baseball or bowling, a perfect game.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally a trade mark (capitalised).
Noun
[edit]perfecto m (plural perfectos)
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]perfecto (feminine perfecta, masculine plural perfectos, feminine plural perfectas)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “perfecto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]perfectō
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin perfectus, partially borrowed as a learned term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]perfecto (feminine perfecta, masculine plural perfectos, feminine plural perfectas)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “perfecto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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