perfecto
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish perfecto (“perfect”). Doublet of perfect.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
perfecto (comparative more perfecto, superlative most perfecto)
NounEdit
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.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Originally a trade mark (capitalised).
NounEdit
perfecto m (plural perfectos)
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
perfecto m (feminine singular perfecta, masculine plural perfectos, feminine plural perfectas)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “perfecto” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
LatinEdit
ParticipleEdit
perfectō
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin perfectus, partially borrowed as a learned term.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
perfecto (feminine perfecta, masculine plural perfectos, feminine plural perfectas)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “perfecto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014