apelativo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.pe.laˈt͡ʃi.vu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.pe.laˈt͡ʃi.vu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.pe.laˈt͡ʃi.vo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.pɨ.lɐˈti.vu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.pɨ.lɐˈti.vu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.pɨ.lɐˈti.bu/ [ɐ.pɨ.lɐˈti.βu]

• Hyphenation: a‧pe‧la‧ti‧vo

Adjective

apelativo (feminine apelativa, masculine plural apelativos, feminine plural apelativas)

1. (semantics) appellative (of or relating to ascribing names)
2. appellational; appealing (making an appeal)

   Synonym: apelador

Noun

apelativo m (plural apelativos)

1. (semantics) appellative; common noun (noun that does not refer to a specific entity)

Related terms

• apelar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin appellatīvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apelaˈtibo/ [a.pe.laˈt̪i.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ibo
• Syllabification: a‧pe‧la‧ti‧vo

Adjective

apelativo (feminine apelativa, masculine plural apelativos, feminine plural apelativas)

1. (semantics) appellative (of or relating to ascribing names)
2. appellational; appealing (making an appeal)

Noun

apelativo m (plural apelativos)

1. surname (family name)

   Synonym: apellido

   • 2015 July 24, “Otros caminos de Santiago”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Pero en los albores de las peregrinaciones fue un camino importante y con identidad propia que muchos viajeros usaban para acceder de manera segura desde el paso fronterizo de Bayona (de ahí uno de sus apelativos) hacia el interior de la meseta castellana.

     But in the early pilgrimage days it was an important path with an identity of its own that many travelers would use to safely cross the border at Bayona (hence one of its names) into the Castilian plateau.

2. epithet (term used to characterize)

   Synonym: epíteto

Related terms

• apelar

 

Further reading

• “apelativo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014