perfectus

Perfect passive participle of perficiō (“carry out, finish; perfect; cause”).

perfectus m (feminine perfecta, neuter perfectum); first/second declension

1. achieved, executed, carried out, finished, completed, having been finished or completed; complete
2. perfected, having been perfected; perfect, excellent, exquisite
3. brought about, caused, having been brought about or caused
4. (grammar) perfect

First/second declension.

• perfectus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• perfectus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• perfectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • absolutely perfect: absolutus et perfectus
    
  • an ideal: undique expleta et perfecta forma
    
  • to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare
    
  • Plato's ideal republic: civitas optima, perfecta Platonis
    
  • a man of profound erudition: vir perfecte planeque eruditus
    
  • a work of art: artis opus; opus arte factum or perfectum
    
  • to live a perfect life: virtutis perfectae perfecto munere fungi (Tusc. 1. 45. 109)
    

Borrowed from Latin perfectus.

perfectus m

1. perfect (faultless, etc.)
   • circa 980, La Vie de Saint Léger

     Perfectus fud in caritet

     He was perfect in terms of charity

• The Vie de Saint Léger citation above is the only known recorded usage.