Word Origin Summary

Imperfectus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• imperfeito

  Portuguese · derived from

• imperfecto

  Spanish · derived from

• imparfait

  French · derived from

• imperfetto

  Italian · derived from

• imperfekti

  Finnish · derived from

• imperfect

  English · derived from

• imperfecte

  Catalan · derived from

• imperfaict

  Middle French · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root