perfectivo
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- perfetivo (Portugal)
Etymology
From Late Latin perfectīvus, from Latin perficiō.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peʁ.fekˈt͡ʃi.vu/ [peh.fekˈt͡ʃi.vu]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /peɾ.fekˈt͡ʃi.vu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /peʁ.fekˈt͡ʃi.vu/ [peχ.fekˈt͡ʃi.vu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peɻ.fekˈt͡ʃi.vo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾ.fɛˈkti.vu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾ.fɛˈkti.bu/ [pɨɾ.fɛˈkti.βu]
- Hyphenation: per‧fec‧ti‧vo
Adjective
perfectivo (feminine perfectiva, masculine plural perfectivos, feminine plural perfectivas) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, European Portuguese spelling)
- (grammar) perfective (relative to the perfect tense or perfective aspect)
Further reading
- “perfectivo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “perfectivo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “perfectivo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “perfectivo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “perfectivo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin perfectivus, from Latin perficiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɾfeɡˈtibo/ [peɾ.feɣ̞ˈt̪i.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -ibo
- Syllabification: per‧fec‧ti‧vo
Adjective
perfectivo (feminine perfectiva, masculine plural perfectivos, feminine plural perfectivas)
Related terms
Further reading
- “perfectivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024