perspicaz
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin perspicax.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: pers‧pi‧caz
Adjective[edit]
perspicaz m or f (plural perspicazes)
- perspicacious (showing keen insight)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin perspicācem (“sharp-sighted”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /peɾspiˈkaθ/ [peɾs.piˈkaθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /peɾspiˈkas/ [peɾs.piˈkas]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -aθ
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: pers‧pi‧caz
Adjective[edit]
perspicaz m or f (masculine and feminine plural perspicaces)
- perceptive, perspicacious, insightful, shrewd
- (of vision) acute
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “perspicaz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
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- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aθ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aθ/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/as
- Rhymes:Spanish/as/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish epicene adjectives