savvy

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.

Verb

To understand.

Noun

Shrewdness.

Sinónimos

grasp

understand

dig

compass

🧭

comprehend

apprehend

understanding

grok

see

👀

discernment

get the picture

apprehension

astute

hold

intellect

interpret

judgment

ken

know

notice

nous

penetration

perceive

percipient

politic

practical

pragmatic

prehensile

read

📖

realise

recognise

shrewd

smart

sympathise

wisdom

wise

witty

make of

intelligence

perception

translate

intuitive feeling

ability

catch

clever

cognizance

comprehension

cunning

diplomatic

empathise

empathize

feeling

grip

gumption

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈsæ.vi/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Alteration of save, sabi (“know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese or Spanish sabe (“[she/he] knows”), or from Catalan savi (“wise, very learned”) from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapere (“taste, know”). First appears c. 1785 in a by dictionary by Francis Grose, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”; West Indies pidgin borrowing of Catalan savi (“wise or knowlegeable”), Portuguese (ele) sabe (“he knows”), French savez(-vous) (“do you know”), or Spanish (usted) sabe (“you know”), all from the same Latin source (see also sapient). The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun. Savvy is phonetically more consistent with savi in Catalan or sabe in Portuguese, than sabe in Spanish or savez in French. Grammatically as well, savi in Catalan is both a noun and an adjective, while sabe and savez are just verb conjugations for “he/she knows” and “you know”, respectively.