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 === Rhymes: -ɛtu Hyphenation: cor‧re‧to === Adjective === correto (feminine correta, masculine plural corretos, feminine plural corretas) correct Antonym: incorreto corrected, amended Synonyms: corrigido, emendado ==== Derived terms ==== corretamente ==== Related terms ==== correção corretivo corretor corrigir ==== Descendants ==== Guinea-Bissau Creole: koretu === Further reading === “correto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “correto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026