correto

Portuguese

Alternative forms

correcto (pre-1990 spelling)

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

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈʁɛ.tu/ [koˈhɛ.tu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koˈʁɛ.tu/ [koˈχɛ.tu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈʁɛ.to/ [koˈhɛ.to]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁɛ.tu/

Rhymes: -ɛtu
Hyphenation: cor‧re‧to

Adjective

correto (feminine correta, masculine plural corretos, feminine plural corretas)

correct
Antonym: incorreto

Derived terms

corretamente

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