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• IPA^(key): /pəˈfɛktə/

From American Spanish quiniela perfecta (“perfect quinella”).

perfecta (plural perfectas)

1. (chiefly US) A kind of bet wherein the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted in the correct order.

• quiniela

perfecta

1. (historical, Christianity) A female perfect (Cathar leader).

• praefect, præfect

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pərˈfɛk.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peɾˈfɛk.ta]

perfecta f sg

1. feminine singular of perfecte

perfecta

1. inflection of perfectus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

perfectā

1. ablative feminine singular of perfectus

From perfect +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): [perfekˈta]

a perfecta (third-person singular present perfectează, past participle perfectat) 1st conjugation

1. to finish, complete

Forms of the adjective perfect.

• IPA^(key): [perˈfekta]

perfecta

1. definite feminine singular of perfect

perfecta f sg

1. feminine singular of perfecto