reflexo
Galician
Verb
reflexo
- first-person singular present indicative of reflexar
Latin
Participle
reflexō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of reflexus
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectō (“to bend back; to reflect”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈflɛk.su/ [heˈflɛk.su]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁeˈflɛk.su/ [χeˈflɛk.su]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈflɛk.so/ [heˈflɛk.so]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁɨˈflɛ.ksu/
- Hyphenation: re‧fle‧xo
Noun
reflexo m (plural reflexos)
- reflex (automatic response)
- (optics) reflection (something, such as an image, that is reflected)
- Synonym: reflexão
- quality or condition inherited or resulting from a previous quality or condition
Adjective
reflexo (feminine reflexa, masculine plural reflexos, feminine plural reflexas)
- reflex (produced automatically by a stimulus)
- (optics) reflected
- Synonym: refletido
- which is result of a previous quality or condition
- (grammar) reflexive
Derived terms
- reflexo condicionado
- reflexo de sucção
- reflexo gastrocólico
- reflexo oculocardíaco
- reflexo patelar
- reflexo plantar
- reflexo prensar
- reflexo tendinoso
- reflexodiagnóstico
- reflexologia
- reflexoterapia
Related terms
- refletido
- refletir
- refletividade
- refletivo
- refletor
- reflexão
- reflexibilidade
- reflexifloro
- reflexionar
- reflexivamente
- reflexível
- reflexividade
- reflexivo
- reflexógeno
Spanish
Verb
reflexo
- first-person singular present indicative of reflexar