perspectiva
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /pəɾs.pəkˈti.və/
- (Central) IPA(key): /pərs.pəkˈti.bə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /peɾs.pekˈti.va/
Noun
perspectiva f (plural perspectives)
- perspective
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- perspetiva (European)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peʁs.pekˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ [pehs.pekˈt͡ʃi.vɐ], /peʁs.pe.kiˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ [pehs.pe.kiˈt͡ʃi.vɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /peɾs.pekˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/, /peɾs.pe.kiˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /peʁʃ.pekˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ [peχʃ.pekˈt͡ʃi.vɐ], /peʁʃ.pe.kiˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ [peχʃ.pe.kiˈt͡ʃi.vɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peɻs.pekˈt͡ʃi.va/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾʃ.pɨˈkti.vɐ/
- Hyphenation: pers‧pec‧ti‧va
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Medieval Latin perspectīva (“science of optics”).
Noun
perspectiva f (plural perspectivas) (Brazilian spelling)
- perspective (view, vista or outlook)
- Synonyms: paisagem, panorama, vista
- (optics) perspective (appearance of depth in objects)
- Synonym: tridimensionalidade
- perspective (technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface)
- perspective; point of view
- Synonym: ponto de vista
- prospect; anticipation; expectation
- Synonyms: antecipação, expectativa
- 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:
- Não ha homem que com maior reluctancia e maior repugnancia tenha encarado como eu [...] a perspectiva de se ver envolvido em uma grande guerra.
- There is no man in this room who has always regarded the prospect of engaging in a great war with greater reluctance and with greater repugnance that I have done [...].
Derived terms
- em perspectiva
Related terms
- perspectivação
- perspectivar
- perspectívico
- perspectivismo
- perspectivista
- perspectivo
- perspectografia
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
perspectiva
- feminine singular of perspectivo
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
perspectiva
- inflection of perspectivar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɾspeɡˈtiba/ [peɾs.peɣ̞ˈt̪i.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -iba
- Syllabification: pers‧pec‧ti‧va
Noun
perspectiva f (plural perspectivas)
- perspective
- prospect
Derived terms
- perspectiva linear
Noun
perspectiva f (plural perspectivas)
- female equivalent of perspectivo
Further reading
- “perspectivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014