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, comparable)
- perspicacious (showing keen insight)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “perspicaz” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin perspicāx (“sharp-sighted”) (genitive singular perspicācis).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
perspicaz (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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