cativo
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cativo (plural cativos)
- 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.
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese cativo, from Latin captīvus (“captive”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cativo m (plural cativos, feminine cativa, feminine plural cativas)
Adjective[edit]
cativo (feminine cativa, masculine plural cativos, feminine plural cativas)
- bad; of poor quality
- Está a chover; hoxe temos un tempo cativo
- It's raining; we have bad weather today
- Está a chover; hoxe temos un tempo cativo
- small
- Synonym: pequeno
- hapless
- needy
Related terms[edit]
- cativar (“to captivate”)
- cativeiro (“smallish; of poor quality”)
- cativerio
- catividade
References[edit]
- “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.
Further reading[edit]
- “cativo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin captīvus (“captive”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cativo
- captive, prisoner
- 1462, J. García Oro, “Viveiro en los siglos XIV y XV. La Colección Diplomática de Santo Domingo de Viveiro”, in Estudios Mindonienses, number 3, page 109:
- Iten mando a Triidade de sacar cativos de terra de mouros çincuenta maravedis.
- Item, I send fifty maravedis to the Trinity for releasing captives from the land of the Moors.
Related terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
cativo m
- hapless, unhappy, unfortunate
- Synonym: coitado
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, page 452:
- Et a cabo de grã peça díssolle assý: -¡Ay, rrey Príamos, catiuo! ¿cõmo sodes tã louco et tã sen rrecado que nõ auedes coydado de uossa fazẽda?
- And after a long while he said to him like this: "Alas, hapless king Priam! How are you such a fool and so devoid of judgement that you take no care of your possessions?"
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “cativo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cativo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “catiuo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧vo
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese cativo, probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin captīvus.
Noun[edit]
cativo m (plural cativos, feminine cativa, feminine plural cativas)
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
cativo
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
cativo m (plural cativos)
- Prioria copaifera, a tree of the American tropics.
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
cativo
Further reading[edit]
- “cativo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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