correcto

correcto

1. neuter of correctu

corrēctō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of corrēctus

correcto (feminine correcta, masculine plural correctos, feminine plural correctas)

1. Superseded spelling of correto. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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.)

• correctamente

Borrowed from Latin correctus. Cf. also the inherited Old Spanish correcho.

• IPA^(key): /koˈreɡto/ [koˈreɣ̞.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -eɡto
• Syllabification: co‧rrec‧to

correcto (feminine correcta, masculine plural correctos, feminine plural correctas)

1. correct, right
2. well-behaved

• incorrecto

• correctamente
• políticamente correcto

• corregir
• corrección

• “correcto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014