practico
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish práctico (“experienced; skilled; practiced”). Doublet of practic.
Noun
practico (plural practicos)
- (Cuba, Philippines, obsolete) A guide (person who guides).
- 1907, Alexander von Humboldt, translated by Thomasina Ross, Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America:
- On the 14th March, we entered the Bio Guaurabo, one of the two ports of Trinidad de Cuba, to put on shore the practico, or pilot of Batabano, who had steered us across the flats of the Jardinillos […]
Catalan
Verb
practico
- first-person singular present indicative of practicar
Italian
Adjective
practico (feminine practica, masculine plural practici, feminine plural practiche)
- (obsolete) alternative form of pratico
Latin
Adjective
prācticō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prācticus
Portuguese
Verb
practico
- first-person singular present indicative of practicar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾaɡˈtiko/ [pɾaɣ̞ˈt̪i.ko]
- Rhymes: -iko
- Syllabification: prac‧ti‧co
Verb
practico
- first-person singular present indicative of practicar