“correct” in Latin

Amend, corrigere (general term for making anything right, by altering what is wrong, or supplying what is deficient; e.g., mendum, delictum, mores, errorem poenitendo): emendare (to remove what is faulty; according to Döderlein, after the manner of an experienced teacher, or sympathizing friend. To correct anybody’s writings, alicujus scripta emendare = to remove faults of a transcriber; alicujus scripta corrigere, would be to improve the author’s words or thoughts). (the words are found in this connection and order), corrigere et emendare: emendare et corrigere: melius facere (to improve anything). ☞ It has been doubted whether it is right to say, corrigere se or hominem = corrigere mores suos, mores, vitia, etc., hominis; but there is abundant authority for the accusative of the person :tu ut umquam te corrigas (Cic., Cat., 1, 9, 22)! Alia ratione malevolus, alia amator - corrigendus (Tusc., 4, 31, 65). Nearly so, tota civitas (= cives) emendari et corrigi solet continentia (Leg., 3, 13, 30), Krebs. To correct the manners (= morals), mores corrigere or emendare: to correct mistakes, menda tollere (especially errours in writing: and consequently the right expression for correcting errours of the press): to correct (moral) faults, vitia emendare: to correct a bad habit or custom, emendare consuetudinem vitiosam (Cic.): to correct errors of the press, *menda typographica tollere. To correct the press, *plagulas de prelo corrigere; or librum, plagulas, etc., perspicere et corrigere (after Cic., eas [epistolas] ego, oportet, perspiciam, corrigam; tum denique edentur, Att., 16, 5, quite at the end.): *prima specimina typographica corrigere (Wyttenbach). Ruhnken used to correct the press himself, *Ruhnkenius ipse specimina typographica tractare solebat (Wyttenbach).

To correct by some mixture or other application, corrigere: emendare (both used as medical terms): to correct the taste of anything, saporem alicujus rei lenire: the acidity of fruit, amaritudinem frugum mitigare. To correct acidity, lenire acria (Plin.).

Chastise, Vid.

Not faulty; free from errours: ab omni vitio vacuus: vitio purus (free from faults, whether physical or moral; of persons or things): accuratus (made, prepared, etc., with care; that has been carefully attended to; of things only: sermo, dicendi genus, Cic.): emendatus (freed from faults; of compositions): emendate descriptus (correctly written or printed). (α) With respect to the text of an author, or to an edition of his works, Ruhnken uses emendatus, castigatus, emaculatus. To print a very correct and beautiful edition, *librum nitidissime et accuratissime describere, typis exscribere. (β) with respect to style, purus: emendatus: rectus: bonus: accuratus (Vid: above sermo, dicendi genus, Cic.): comptus (neat): elegans (select in the choice of words; showing good taste: the last two, both of the speech and of the speaker). A correct style, sermo purus, bonus, etc.: also, accuratus (Cic.): oratio sana, recta, pura, emendata, etc. [Vid: CORRECTNESS]: a correct Latin style, incorrupta quaedam Latini sermonis integritas (Cic., as possessed by an orator): to speak correct Latin, pure et Latine dicere.

Morally right, probus: honestus (of persons or things): bene moratus (e.g., vir; also civitas, Cic.): innocens: insons (innocent). A correct life, recti mores: vita honesta or emendatior: vita vitio carens et sine labe peracta (Ov., Pont., 2, 7, 49; and 4, 8, 20): to be correct, culpa carere: sancte vivere (of persons): sine vitiis esse; vitiis carere or vacaro (also of things).

Conformable to truth; accurate, justus (according to light or law; then according to a rule or directions, complete; opposed to non justus): rectus (PROP. straight; then, preserving the right mean between excess and defect; consistent with reason, PROP.: opposed to pravus, perversus. It is only in these senses that rectus = “correct;” hence, an oratio recta is not a “correct,” but a plain, sober, sensible speech, without rhetorical ornament: vox recta or sonus rectus, is one that is neither too high nor too low; Vid: Ernesti, Lex. Techn., p. 325): verus (true). A correct account (= bill), ratio, quae convenit or constat: a correct measure, mensura justa: mensura publice probata (stamped as such by public authority): this verse is note correct, in hoc versu aliquid peccatum est, or aliquid claudicat (Cic.): a correct thought, vere dictum; sententia vera: a correct judgement, judicium sincerum to form a correct judgement, vere judicare; about anything, de aliqua re: to draw a correct conclusion, vere concludere: that statement is not correct (= is inconsistent), non cohaerent (Terentianus, Andr., 2, 2, 23): your statement is quite correct, res ita est, ut dicis.