perfectio

Latin

Alternative forms

• perfecciō (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.

Proto-Italic *per(i)-

Latin per-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Latin perficiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin perfectiō

From perficiō + -tiō.

Noun

perfectiō f (genitive perfectiōnis); third declension

1. finishing, completion
2. perfection

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	perfectiō	perfectiōnēs
genitive	perfectiōnis	perfectiōnum
dative	perfectiōnī	perfectiōnibus
accusative	perfectiōnem	perfectiōnēs
ablative	perfectiōne	perfectiōnibus
vocative	perfectiō	perfectiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: perfecció
• Italian: perfezione
• Middle French: perfection
  • French: perfection
• Piedmontese: përfession
• → Polish: perfekcja
• Portuguese: perfeição
• Romanian: perfecție, perfecțiune
• Spanish: perfección

References

• “perfectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “perfectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "perfectio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “perfectio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to attain perfection: ad perfectionem, (ad summum) pervenire
    
  • ideal perfection: absolutio et perfectio (not summa perfectio)
    
  • to conceive an ideal: singularem quandam perfectionis imaginem animo concipere