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The corpus record — Latin

perfectio

perfectio · f

a finishing

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

perfectĭo — Lewis & Short

perfectĭo, ōnis, f.perficio,

I a finishing, completing, perfecting; perfection (class.): hanc absolutionem perfectionemque in oratore desiderans, Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 130: perfectio atque absolutio optimi, id. Brut. 36, 137: ad cumulum perfectionis accedere, Greg. M. Ep. 7, 10 fin.; Cic. Or. 29, 103; id. Fin. 3, 9, 32; Vulg. Num. 6, 21.—Plur.: operum perfectiones, Vitr. 3, 1, 4.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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