🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

exatidão

Pronunciation / Transliteration: e.za.tiˈdɐ̃w

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Exactitude/ˌɛɡ.zækˈtɪʃ.uːd/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14200 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele exigia exatidão em todos os relatórios financeiros."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality of being exact, precise, and rigorously accurate.

    "The master watchmaker approached his craft with absolute exactitude."
  2. 2

    Strict adherence to fact, truth, or standard requirements.

    "Her arguments were constructed with mathematical exactitude."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French word exactitude, stemming from the Latin exactus (precise, accurate), which is the past participle of exigere (to demand, measure, exact). Entering the English language in the late 16th century, it evolved to denote the quality of being strictly accurate and rigorously precise.

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