Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

perspicil

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
per-spi-cil
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An optical glass; a telescope.

Obsolete

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Etymology

From Latin perspicilla, from perspicere (“to look through”).

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What does perspicil mean?
An optical glass; a telescope.
Where does perspicil come from?
It is traced to Latin.

How to pronounce perspicil

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