incompleto
Incompleto is an adjective used in Spanish and Italian to describe something that is not complete or unfinished. It can modify nouns to indicate partial completion, missing elements, or unfinished work. In Italian examples include “un progetto incompleto” and “il dataset è incompleto”; in Spanish, phrases like “un informe incompleto” or “datos incompletos” are common. The term is widely used across technical, administrative, and literary contexts and can refer to documents, processes, or data collections, as well as to tasks that have not yet been finished. In computing and data management, “incomplete” frequently signals missing fields or values, and forms may label a field as “campo incompleto.” The word may also appear in educational or historical texts to indicate partial editions or unfinalized drafts.
Etymology: Incompleto derives from Latin incompletus, formed by the prefix in- (not) and completus (completed).
Morphology and usage: In both Spanish and Italian, incompleto agrees with the gender and number of the
Other uses: In some contexts, incompleto can appear as a surname or in titles of works in
See also: incomplete, incompleteness. Related cognates exist in other Romance languages, such as Portuguese and French