correct

pronunciation

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Verb:

make right or correct
make reparations or amends for
censure severely
adjust or make up for
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
go down in value
alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
treat a defect
Adjective:

free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
socially right or correct
in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
correct in opinion or judgment

Word Origin

correct: correct: [14] Correct is etymologically related to rectitude and rightness. It comes from the past participle of Latin corrigere ‘make straight, put right’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and regere ‘lead straight, rule’. This regere (source of English regent, régime, regiment, and region) goes back to an Indo-European base *reg- ‘move in a straight line’, which also produced English right, rectitude, regal, royal, and rule. In English the verb correct by a long time predates the adjective, which first appeared (via French) in the 17th century.=> escort, regal, region, right, royal, rule

correct (v.): mid-14c., "to set right, rectify" (a fault or error), from Latin correctus, past participle of corrigere "to put straight, reduce to order, set right;" in transferred use, "to reform, amend," especially of speech or writing, from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + regere "to lead straight, rule" (see regal). Originally of persons; with reference to writing, etc., attested from late 14c. Related: Corrected; correcting.

correct (adj.): 1670s, from French correct "right, proper," from Latin correctus (see correct (v.)). Related: Correctly; correctness.

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