transpicuous

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From rock to rock transpicuous, making known

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  1. adjective Easily understood or seen through: transpicuous motives.

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  1. From New Latin trānspicuus, from Latin trānspicere, to see through : trāns-, trans- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =Italian traspicuo, from Latin as if *transpicuus, from transpicere, see or look through, from trans, through, + specere, look: see spy. Cf. conspicuous, perspicuous.
 

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/trænˈspɪkjuəs/
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