Meaning
correct
Concepts
just right
out the door
Honest
Opposite of
incorreto
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Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈʁɛ.tu/
Etymology
In summary
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.
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