cativo

cativo (plural cativos)

1. Prioria copaifera, a flowering tree of Central and South America.
   • 1999, George O. Poinar, The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World, page 15:

     Thrusting up into the canopy, competing for sunlight with the algarrobo, grew the cativo tree, whose modern descendants grow to 120 feet.

From Old Galician-Portuguese cativo, from Latin captīvus (“captive”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtiβo̝/

cativo m (plural cativos, feminine cativa, feminine plural cativas)

1. child, kid

   Os cativos teñen que enredar.

   The children must play.

2. captive, prisoner

cativo m (feminine singular cativa, masculine plural cativos, feminine plural cativas)

1. bad; of poor quality

   Está a chover; hoxe temos un tempo cativo

   It's raining; we have bad weather today

2. small

   Synonym: pequeno

3. hapless
4. needy

• cativar (“to captivate”)
• cativeiro (“smallish; of poor quality”)

• “cativo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cativo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cativo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cativo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• “cativo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧vo

From Old Galician-Portuguese cativo, probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin captīvus.

cativo m (plural cativos, feminine cativa, feminine plural cativas)

1. captive, prisoner
2. slave

• cativar
• cativeiro

cativo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cativar

cativo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cativar