dialéctico
See also: dialectico
Portuguese
Adjective
dialéctico (feminine dialéctica, masculine plural dialécticos, feminine plural dialécticas)
- (European Portuguese spelling) pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of dialético; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Further reading
- “dialéctico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin dialectica, from Ancient Greek διαλεκτικός (dialektikós).
Adjective
dialéctico (feminine dialéctica, masculine plural dialécticos, feminine plural dialécticas)
- dialectic
- 2015 November 25, Rubén Amón, “Reportaje”, in El País[1], archived from the original on 21 December 2015:
- Menos entusiasta se declara Juan Cruz, cuyo papel de contertulio en los espacios culturales de TVE y de RNE no le hace añorar precisamente las refriegas dialécticas con las que tantas veces se estimulan los debates o se sobreactúa.
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “dialéctico”, 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