practico

A guide (person who guides).

Noun

  1. A guide (person who guides).
    • On the 14th March, we entered the Bio Guaurabo, one of the two ports of Trinidad de Cuba, to put on shore the practico, or pilot of Batabano, who had steered us across the flats of the Jardinillos […] - 1907, Alexander...

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish práctico (“experienced; skilled; practiced”). Doublet of practic.

Forms

practicos