# alternativa
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əl.tər.nəˈti.βə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əl.tər.nəˈti.və]
* IPA: (Valencia) [al.teɾ.naˈti.va]

### Adjective

alternativa f sg
* feminine singular of alternatiu

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈaltɛrnatɪva]
* IPA: [ˈaltɛrnatiːva]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

alternativa f
* alternative

#### Related terms

* alternativní

### Further reading

* “alternativa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “alternativa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [alternaˈtiva]
* Rhymes: -iva
* Hyphenation: al‧ter‧na‧ti‧va

### Adjective

alternativa (accusative singular alternativan, plural alternativaj, accusative plural alternativajn)
* alternative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /al.ter.naˈti.va/
* Rhymes: -iva
* Hyphenation: al‧ter‧na‧tì‧va

### Noun

alternativa f (plural alternative)
* alternative

### Adjective

alternativa f sg
* feminine singular of alternativo

### Anagrams

* intarlavate

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* alternātīva: (Classical Latin) IPA: /al.ter.naːˈtiː.u̯a/, [äɫ̪t̪ɛrnäːˈt̪iːu̯ä]
* alternātīva: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /al.ter.naˈti.va/, [äl̪t̪ernäˈt̪iːvä]
* alternātīvā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /al.ter.naːˈtiː.u̯aː/, [äɫ̪t̪ɛrnäːˈt̪iːu̯äː]
* alternātīvā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /al.ter.naˈti.va/, [äl̪t̪ernäˈt̪iːvä]

### Adjective

alternātīva
* inflection of alternātīvus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Adjective

alternātīvā
* ablative feminine singular of alternātīvus

### References

* alternativa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* alternativene

### Noun

alternativa n pl
* definite plural of alternativ

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

alternativa n pl
* definite plural of alternativ

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From alternativo (“alternative”), from Medieval Latin alternātīvus.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aw.teʁ.naˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ [aʊ̯.teɦ.naˈt͡ʃi.vɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /aw.teʁ.naˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ [aʊ̯.teɦ.naˈt͡ʃi.vɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /aw.teɾ.naˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ [aʊ̯.teɾ.naˈt͡ʃi.vɐ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /aw.teʁ.naˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ [aʊ̯.teʁ.naˈt͡ʃi.vɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aw.teɻ.naˈt͡ʃi.va/ [aʊ̯.teɻ.naˈt͡ʃi.va]
* (Portugal) IPA: /al.tɨɾ.nɐˈti.vɐ/ [aɫ.tɨɾ.nɐˈti.vɐ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /al.tɨɾ.nɐˈti.vɐ/ [aɫ.tɨɾ.nɐˈti.vɐ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /al.tɨɾ.nɐˈti.bɐ/ [aɫ.tɨɾ.nɐˈti.βɐ]
* Hyphenation: al‧ter‧na‧ti‧va

### Noun

alternativa f (plural alternativas)
* alternative (one of a set of mutually exclusive choices)
    Synonym: opção

#### Related terms

* alternação
* alternadamente
* alternado
* alternador
* alternamente
* alternância
* alternante
* alternar
* alternário
* alternativamente
* alternatividade
* alternativo
* alternável

### Adjective

alternativa
* feminine singular of alternativo

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

alternatíva f (Cyrillic spelling алтернати́ва)
* alternative
* alternative lifestyle

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /alteɾnaˈtiba/ [al̪.t̪eɾ.naˈt̪i.β̞a]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -iba
* Syllabification: al‧ter‧na‧ti‧va

### Noun

alternativa f (plural alternativas)
* alternative, option
* alternation
* (bullfighting) ceremony in which a novillero becomes a matador for the first time, when the padrino allows him to make his first kill

#### Derived terms

* tomar la alternativa

### Adjective

alternativa
* feminine singular of alternativo

### Further reading

* “alternativo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Adjective

alternativa
* inflection of alternativ:
** definite singular
** plural