cáustico
See also: caustico
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cáus‧ti‧co
Adjective edit
cáustico (feminine cáustica, masculine plural cáusticos, feminine plural cáusticas)
- caustic (capable of destroying organic tissue)
- (figurative) caustic (very critical or unpleasant)
Noun edit
cáustico m (plural cáusticos)
- caustic (substance which burns, corrodes or destroys organic tissue)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin caustĭcus, from Ancient Greek καυστικός (kaustikós).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cáustico (feminine cáustica, masculine plural cáusticos, feminine plural cáusticas)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cáustico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014