perspicaz

Learned borrowing from Latin perspicax.

• Hyphenation: pers‧pi‧caz

perspicaz m or f (plural perspicazes)

1. perspicacious (showing keen insight)

• perspicácia

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

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

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

perspicaz m or f (masculine and feminine plural perspicaces)

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

• “perspicaz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28