Where does “imperfect” come from?
Imperfect comes from Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit, from Latin imperfectus, from Proto-Italic emperifaktos.
imperfect (English): not perfect; unisexual: having either male or...
Definitions
- not perfect; unisexual: having either male or...
Ancestry of “imperfect”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | imperfit | — |
| 2 | Old French | imparfit | — |
| 3 | Latin | imperfectus | unfinished, incomplete; imperfect |
| 4 | Latin | perfectus | achieved, executed, carried out, finished,... |
| 5 | Latin | perficiō | — |
| 6 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 7 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 8 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 9 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
Words derived from “imperfect”