perfecto

Borrowed from Spanish perfecto (“perfect”), from Latin perfectus. Doublet of parfait, perfect, and perfectus.

• IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈfɛktəʊ/

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perfecto (comparative more perfecto, superlative most perfecto)

1. (informal, humorous) Perfect, excellent, brilliant.

perfecto (plural perfectos)

2. A large, tapered cigar.
   • 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 99.

     'Well the only thing I can advise,' I said, 'is that you cultivate him assiduously. Waylay him and give him cigars... Tell him it's a fine day. He has a dog named Edward. Seek Edward out and pat him. Many a young man has won over the father of the girl he loves by such tactics, so why not you?'

     He agreed to do so, and in the days which followed Poskitt could not show his face in the clubhouse without having Wilmot spring out at him with perfectos.

3. (sports) In baseball or bowling, a perfect game.

Genericized trademark of Perfecto, a brand of motorcycle jackets designed by Irving Schott, who named it after his favorite cigar (English perfecto (“a large, tapered cigar”)), itself named for Spanish perfecto (“perfect”). Doublet of parfait.

perfecto m (plural perfectos)

1. bomber jacket

From Latin perfectus.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpeɾˈfetto/ [ˌpeɾˈfet̪.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -etto

perfecto (feminine perfecta, masculine plural perfectos, feminine plural perfectas)

1. perfect

• perfectamente

• “perfecto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛrˈfɛk.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [perˈfɛk.t̪o]

perfectō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of perfectus

perfectō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of perfectus

Learned borrowing from Latin perfectus.

• IPA^(key): /peɾˈfeɡto/ [peɾˈfeɣ̞.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eɡto
• Syllabification: per‧fec‧to

perfecto (feminine perfecta, masculine plural perfectos, feminine plural perfectas)

1. perfect

   Synonym: impecable

• “perfecto”, 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