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]- “perspicaz”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin perspicācem (“sharp-sighted”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /peɾspiˈkaθ/ [peɾs.piˈkaθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /peɾspiˈkas/ [peɾs.piˈkas]
- Rhymes: -aθ
- 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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