positivo
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positivo m (plural positivo's)
- (Netherlands, informal) A person with a positive mindset.
- Opa Ivo is een echte positivo.
- Grandpa Ivo is a really cheery bloke.
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positivo (feminine positiva, masculine plural positivi, feminine plural positive)
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- positivo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /po.siˈtiː.u̯oː/, [pɔs̠ɪˈt̪iːu̯oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /po.siˈti.vo/, [pos̬iˈt̪iːvo]
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positīvō
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Borrowed from Latin posītīvus (“positive”), from the past participle stem of pōnō (“to place”).
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- Hyphenation: po‧si‧ti‧vo
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positivo (feminine positiva, masculine plural positivos, feminine plural positivas, not comparable)
- affirmative (asserting that something is true)
- Synonyms: afirmativo, confirmador, confirmante, confirmativo, confirmatório
- Antonym: negativo
- (mathematics, of a number) positive (greater than zero)
- Antonym: negativo
- (physics): positive (having more protons than electrons)
- Antonym: negativo
- (comparable) positive (characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better)
- Synonym: construtivo
- (comparable) optimistic
- Synonyms: otimista, otimístico
- Antonyms: pessimista, pessimístico
- (grammar) positive (describing the primary sense of a word; not comparative or superlative, not augmentative or diminutive)
- Coordinate terms: aumentativo, comparativo, diminutivo, superlativo
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positivo
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positivo (feminine positiva, masculine plural positivos, feminine plural positivas)
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positivo
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- “positivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014