perspicaz
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