English: from Middle English parfit ‘fully trained’, ‘well
versed’ (Old French parfit(e) ‘complete(d)’, from Latin
perfectus, past participle of perficere ‘to finish or
accomplish’), hence a nickname, probably originally denoting an
apprentice who had completed his period of training. (The change from
-er- to -ar- was a characteristic phonetic development
in Old French and Middle English.) The modern English word
perfect is a learned recoinage from Latin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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