cativar
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin captīvāre (“to capture”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/ [ka.t͡ʃiˈva(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ka.t͡ʃiˈva(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ka.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/ [ka.t͡ʃiˈva(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.t͡ʃiˈva(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.tiˈvaɾ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.tiˈbaɾ/ [kɐ.tiˈβaɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.tiˈva.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧var
Verb
cativar (first-person singular present cativo, first-person singular preterite cativei, past participle cativado)
- to captivate, to charm, to seduce, to attract
- 2006, Eduardo Giffoni Flórido, As grandes personagens da história do cinema brasileiro: 1970-1979[1], Fraiha, →ISBN, page 130:
- Nuno Leal Maia é um grande amigo dos amigos. Quem já conviveu ou convive com ele sabe da sua personalidade alegre e descontraída, sem estrelismo, que cativa as pessoas com o seu bom humor constante.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to dominate
- to capture
Conjugation
Conjugation of cativar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
Further reading
- “cativar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
- “cativar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Spanish
Verb
cativar (first-person singular present cativo, first-person singular preterite cativé, past participle cativado)
- obsolete spelling of cautivar
Conjugation
Conjugation of cativar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
- “cativar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024