perspicaz

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perspicax.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peʁs.piˈka(j)s/ [pehs.piˈka(ɪ̯)s]

• (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)

1. perspicacious (showing keen insight)

Related terms

• perspicácia

Further reading

• “perspicaz”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin perspicācem (“sharp-sighted”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /peɾspiˈkaθ/ [peɾs.piˈkaθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /peɾspiˈkas/ [peɾs.piˈkas]
• Rhymes: -aθ
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: pers‧pi‧caz

Adjective

perspicaz m or f (masculine and feminine plural perspicaces)

1. perceptive, perspicacious, insightful, shrewd
2. (of vision) acute

Derived terms

• perspicazmente

 

Related terms

• perspicacia
• perspicacidad

 

Further reading

• “perspicaz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28