cativo

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtiβo̝/

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

1. child, kid

   Os cativos teñen que enredar.

   The children must play.

2. captive, prisoner

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

• cativar (“to captivate”)
• cativeiro (“smallish; of poor quality”)
• cativerio
• catividade

• Ernesto Xosé 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cativo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cativo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cativo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “cativo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From Latin captīvus (“captive”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtiβo/

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

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.

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?"

• Galician: cativo
• Portuguese: cativo

• Ernesto Xosé 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cativo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “catiuo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧vo

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

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

1. captive, prisoner

   Synonym: prisioneiro

2. slave

   Synonym: escravo

• Papiamentu: katibu
• Sranan Tongo: katibo
  • Aukan: katibo
  • Saramaccan: katibo

cativo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cativar

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

cativo m (plural cativos)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cativo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cativar

• “cativo”, 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