cativar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin captīvāre (“to capture”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧var
Verb edit
cativar (first-person singular present cativo, first-person singular preterite cativei, past participle cativado)
- to captivate, to charm, to seduce, to attract
- 2015, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe, Pelekanos Books, →ISBN:
- O que significa "cativar"? – É uma coisa de que toda a gente se esqueceu - disse a raposa. Significa criar laços.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to dominate
- to capture
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of cativar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cativar.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cativar” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “cativar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish edit
Verb edit
cativar (first-person singular present cativo, first-person singular preterite cativé, past participle cativado)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of cativar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading edit
- “cativar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014