metafísico
See also: metafisico
Galician
Adjective
metafísico (feminine metafísica, masculine plural metafísicos, feminine plural metafísicas)
Derived terms
Noun
metafísico m (plural metafísicos, feminine metafísica, feminine plural metafísicas)
Related terms
Further reading
- “metafísico”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- metaphysico (obsolete)
Etymology
From metafísica (“metaphysics”), from Medieval Latin metaphysica (“metaphysics”), from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká). By surface analysis, meta- + físico.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.taˈfi.zi.ku/, /ˌmɛ.taˈfi.zi.ku/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /me.taˈfi.zi.ko/, /ˌmɛ.taˈfi.zi.ko/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.tɐˈfi.zi.ku/, /ˌmɛ.tɐˈfi.zi.ku/
- Hyphenation: me‧ta‧fí‧si‧co
Noun
metafísico m (plural metafísicos, feminine metafísica, feminine plural metafísicas)
- metaphysician (philosopher who specializes in the scholarly study of metaphysics)
Adjective
metafísico (feminine metafísica, masculine plural metafísicos, feminine plural metafísicas)
- (not comparable) metaphysical (of or relating to metaphysics)
- metaphysical (immaterial, supersensual, not physical)
- Synonyms: abstrato, imaterial, transcendente
- Antonyms: físico, material, mundado
- (figurative) incomprehensible (hard to understand)
- Synonyms: difícil, enigmático, incompreensível, nebuloso, sutil
- Antonym: simples
Related terms
- metafísica
- metafisicamente
- metafisicar
- metafisicismo
- metafisismo
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /metaˈfisiko/ [me.t̪aˈfi.si.ko]
- Rhymes: -isiko
- Syllabification: me‧ta‧fí‧si‧co
Adjective
metafísico (feminine metafísica, masculine plural metafísicos, feminine plural metafísicas)
Derived terms
Noun
metafísico m (plural metafísicos, feminine metafísica, feminine plural metafísicas)
Related terms
Further reading
- “metafísico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024