# positivo
## Dutch
### Etymology

From positief +‎ -o, coined by Dutch comedians Van Kooten & De Bie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌpoː.ziˈti.voː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: po‧si‧ti‧vo

### Noun

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.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin positīvus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /po.ziˈti.vo/
* Rhymes: -ivo
* Hyphenation: po‧si‧tì‧vo

### Adjective

positivo (feminine positiva, masculine plural positivi, feminine plural positive)
* positive
    Antonym: negativo

#### Derived terms

* positivamente
* positivismo
* positività
* positivizzarsi

### Further reading

* positivo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /po.siˈtiː.u̯oː/, [pɔs̠ɪˈt̪iːu̯oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /po.siˈti.vo/, [pos̬iˈt̪iːvo]

### Adjective

positīvō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of positīvus

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin posītīvus (“positive”), from the past participle stem of pōnō (“to place”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /po.ziˈt͡ʃi.vu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /po.ziˈt͡ʃi.vu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /po.ziˈt͡ʃi.vo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /pu.ziˈti.vu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /pu.ziˈti.vu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /pu.ziˈti.bu/ [pu.ziˈti.βu]
* Hyphenation: po‧si‧ti‧vo

### Adjective

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

#### Related terms

* impositivo
* positivação
* positivado
* positivamente
* positivar
* positividade
* positivismo
* positivista
* pósitron
* positrônio

### Interjection

positivo
* (formal) yes
    Synonyms: afirmativo, sim
    Antonyms: negativo, não

### Further reading

* “positivo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin positīvus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /posiˈtibo/ [po.siˈt̪i.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -ibo
* Syllabification: po‧si‧ti‧vo

### Adjective

positivo (feminine positiva, masculine plural positivos, feminine plural positivas)
* positive
    Antonym: negativo

#### Derived terms

* discriminación positiva
* lado positivo
* positivamente
* positividad
* signo positivo
* VIH positivo

### Verb

positivo
* first-person singular present indicative of positivar

### Further reading

* “positivo”, 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