aspecto

Learned borrowing from Latin aspectus.

aspecto m (plural aspectos)

1. appearance, look
2. aspect

• adspectō

From aspiciō (“look at, see”) + -tō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [asˈpɛk.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈpɛk.to]

aspectō (present infinitive aspectāre, perfect active aspectāvī, supine aspectātum); first conjugation

1. to look at attentively; observe, watch, regard
2. to look at with respect or desire; pay attention to
3. to look or lie towards, overlook

• aspiciō
• spectō

• “aspecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aspecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aspecto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• aspeto (Portugal)
• aspeito (obsolete)

Learned borrowing from Latin aspectus; displaced aspeito, from Old Galician-Portuguese aspeito.

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -ɛktu
• Hyphenation: as‧pec‧to

aspecto m (plural aspectos)

1. appearance, look
2. aspect

The forms aspecto and aspeto are both used in Portugal, with aspeto being more common. In Brazil, only the form aspecto is used.

• “aspecto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “aspecto”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “aspecto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “aspecto”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “aspecto”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “aspecto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin aspectus.

• IPA^(key): /asˈpeɡto/ [asˈpeɣ̞.t̪o]

• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -eɡto
• Syllabification: as‧pec‧to

aspecto m (plural aspectos)

1. aspect
2. appearance, look

   Synonyms: apariencia, semblante

• “aspecto”, 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