correto

• correcto (pre-1990 spelling)

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.

• Rhymes: -ɛtu
• Hyphenation: cor‧re‧to

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

1. correct

   Antonym: incorreto

• corretamente

• correção
• corretivo
• corretor
• corrigir