perficit

Perficit is a Latin verb form. It is the third-person singular present active indicative of the verb perficere, meaning to complete, finish, or accomplish. The translation of perficit is "he completes," "she finishes," or "it completes," and it is used to describe a task or action that is being brought to a conclusion in the present.

Perficere is formed from per- (through, to completion) and facere (to do), giving the sense of bringing something to a conclusion. As a present-tense form, perficit takes a direct object to indicate what is being completed: for example, Ille rem perficit meaning "He completes the thing." The corresponding passive form is res perficitur, meaning "The thing is completed," with the agent sometimes expressed by a prepositional phrase (e.g., a quo, by whom).

In linguistic study, perficit is cited as a standard example of the present tense of a Latin -ere verb of the per- prefix group. Dictionaries typically list the headword perficere and provide principal parts such as perfēcī and perfectus for deriving perficit and related forms. The presence of perficit in classical texts helps illustrate Latin verb conjugation, tense, voice, and aspect across narrative and argumentative prose.