perspicaz
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin perspicax.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peʁs.piˈka(j)s/ [pehs.piˈka(ɪ̯)s]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /peɾs.piˈka(j)s/ [peɾs.piˈka(ɪ̯)s]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /peʁʃ.piˈka(j)ʃ/ [peχʃ.piˈka(ɪ̯)ʃ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peɻs.piˈka(j)s/ [peɻs.piˈka(ɪ̯)s]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾʃ.piˈkaʃ/
- Hyphenation: pers‧pi‧caz
Adjective
perspicaz m or f (plural perspicazes)
- perspicacious (showing keen insight)
Related terms
Further reading
- “perspicaz”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin perspicācem (“sharp-sighted”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɾspiˈkaθ/ [peɾs.piˈkaθ] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /peɾspiˈkas/ [peɾs.piˈkas] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aθ (Spain)
- Rhymes: -as (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: pers‧pi‧caz
Adjective
perspicaz m or f (masculine and feminine plural perspicaces)
- perceptive, perspicacious, insightful, shrewd
- (of vision) acute
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “perspicaz”, 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