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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin recīprocus (“back and forth; reciprocal”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: re‧cí‧pro‧co
Adjective
recíproco (feminine recíproca, masculine plural recíprocos, feminine plural recíprocas, not comparable)
- reciprocal (done by each of two people towards the other)
- (mathematics, of a number) which is obtained by dividing 1 by the number
- (grammar, of a verb) reciprocal
Quotations
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Synonyms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin recīprocus (“back and forth; reciprocal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /reˈθipɾoko/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /reˈsipɾoko/
- Rhymes: -ipɾoko
- Syllabification: re‧cí‧pro‧co
Adjective
recíproco (feminine recíproca, masculine plural recíprocos, feminine plural recíprocas)
- reciprocal (done by each of two people towards the other)
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