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cativo

English

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Noun

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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.

Galician

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Cativos ("kids"), A Coruña, Galicia

Etymology

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

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Noun

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

  1. child, kid
    Os cativos teñen que enredar.
    The children must play.
  2. captive, prisoner

Adjective

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cativo (feminine 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
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References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cativo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “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.

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Latin captīvus (“captive”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cativo

  1. 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.
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Adjective

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cativo m

  1. 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?"

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  • Galician: cativo
  • Portuguese: cativo

Further reading

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cativo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cativo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “catiuo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧vo

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

  1. captive, prisoner
    Synonym: prisioneiro
  2. slave
    Synonym: escravo
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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cativo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cativar

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaˈtibo/ [kaˈt̪i.β̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ibo
  • Syllabification: ca‧ti‧vo

Etymology 1

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Noun

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cativo m (plural cativos)

  1. Prioria copaifera, a tree of the American tropics.

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cativo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cativar

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