"perfect" in sette lingue
Significatoperfect
Spagnolo
/peɾˈfekto/
dotta
Francese
/paʁfɛ/
ereditaria
Italiano
/perˈfɛtto/
ereditaria
Portoghese
/pehˈfejtu/
ereditaria
Latin -CT- became -it- in Portuguese: PERFECTUM → perfeito, NOCTEM → noite.
Rumeno
/perˈfekt/
dotta
Catalano
/pəɾˈfɛktə/
dotta
Inglese
/ˈpɝfɪkt/
dal latino/francese · Old French parfit, respelled after Latin perfectus
L’antenato latino
PERFECTUM‘finished, complete (participle of PERFICERE)’
Tutte e sei le sorelle discendono da questa parola, salvo diversa indicazione qui sotto.
La storia
CT shows the split: French parfait has the it of fait, Italian perfetto the tt of fatto, but Spanish perfecto keeps the Latin cluster because it is the learned form. English respelled Middle English parfit to look Latin.
Parenti inglesi: perfection, perfectly
Leggi fonetiche all’opera
Imparala
In una frase
- esNadie es perfecto.
- frPersonne n'est parfait.
- itNessuno è perfetto.
- ptNinguém é perfeito.
- roNimeni nu e perfect.
- caNingú no és perfecte.
- enNobody is perfect.
La famiglia latina
FAC-, FACT-· do, make
FACERE is the busiest verb in Latin, and its participle FACTUM split cleanly in two: worn down in speech to hecho, fait, fatto, and borrowed back intact by scholars as fact, factual, faction. Spanish adds a twist of its own, turning Latin F- into a silent h- (Old Spanish fazer, fecho). Portuguese feito and Catalan fet vocalize the cluster as French does, while Romanian, true to the Eastern branch, turns -CT- into -pt-: fapt.
FACEREto do, make
eshacerfrfaireitfareptfazerrofacecafer
FACTUMdone; a deed
eshechofrfaititfattoptfeitorofaptcafetenfact
PERFECTUMcompleted, perfect
esperfectofrparfaititperfettoptperfeitoroperfectcaperfecteenperfect
FACTIŌNEMa making; a party, faction
frfaçonptfeiçãoenfashion
FACTIŌNEMa party, faction (learned)
esfacciónfrfactionitfazioneptfacçãorofacțiunecafaccióenfaction
FACTŪRAMa making, workmanship
esfacturafrfactureitfatturaptfaturarofacturăcafactura