perfecto

Borrowed from Spanish perfecto (“perfect”).

perfecto (comparative more perfecto, superlative most perfecto)

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

perfecto (plural perfectos)

1. 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.

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

Originally a trade mark (capitalised).

perfecto m (plural perfectos)

1. bomber jacket

From Latin perfectus.

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

1. perfect

• perfectamente

• “perfecto” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

perfectō

1. dative masculine singular of perfectus
2. dative neuter singular of perfectus
3. ablative masculine singular of perfectus
4. ablative neuter singular of perfectus

From Latin perfectus, partially borrowed as a learned term.

• IPA^(key): /perˈfeɡto/, [perˈfeɣt̪o]

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

1. perfect

   Synonym: impecable

• perfectamente

• “perfecto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.