• IPA^(key): (Central) [pərs.pəkˈti.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pərs.pəkˈti.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peɾs.pekˈti.va]

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perspectiva f (plural perspectives)

1. perspective

• perspetiva (Portugal)

• Hyphenation: pers‧pec‧ti‧va

Borrowed from Medieval Latin perspectīva (“science of optics”).

perspectiva f (plural perspectivas) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)

1. perspective (view, vista or outlook)

   Synonyms: paisagem, panorama, vista

2. (optics) perspective (appearance of depth in objects)

   Synonym: tridimensionalidade

3. perspective (technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface)
4. perspective; point of view

   Synonym: ponto de vista

5. 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 [...].

• em perspectiva

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

perspectiva

1. feminine singular of perspectivo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

perspectiva

1. inflection of perspectivar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “perspectiva”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “perspectiva”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /peɾspeɡˈtiba/ [peɾs.peɣ̞ˈt̪i.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: pers‧pec‧ti‧va

perspectiva f (plural perspectivas)

1. perspective
2. prospect

   Synonym: porvenir

perspectiva f (plural perspectivas)

1. female equivalent of perspectivo

• “perspectivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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