percebido

Percebido is the past participle of the Portuguese verb perceber, meaning to perceive or to notice. It functions mainly as an adjective meaning “perceived” or “noticed.” It is also used in compound tenses with the auxiliary ter (tenho percebido, tenho percebido problemas) and in the passive voice with ser (o sinal foi percebido).

Morphology and usage: como adjective, it agrees with gender and number (percebido, percebida; percebidos, percebidas). It commonly accompanies nouns to indicate that something has already been detected or understood, as in “informação percebida” or “resultado percebido.” It can also appear in passive constructions like “foi percebido” or “foi percebida.”

Etymology: the term derives from Latin perceptus, the past participle of percipere, meaning to seize or grasp through perception.

Relation to similar terms: perceptível describes something that can be perceived (able to be perceived), while percebido indicates that perception has already occurred. The verb perceber is also related to perceptual concepts such as percepção (perception) and perceção in European Portuguese.

Noun usage: in theory, “o percebido” can appear in philosophical or analytical contexts to denote “the perceived” or “the object of perception,” but this use is relatively uncommon in everyday language; more typical is the construction “o que foi percebido.”

Translations: in English, percebido is usually rendered as perceived or noticed, depending on context. In French or Spanish, cognate forms correspond to “perçu” or “percibido.”