# cativo
## English
### Noun

cativo (plural cativos)
* 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.

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈtiβo̝/

### Noun

cativo m (plural cativos, feminine cativa, feminine plural cativas)
* child, kid
    Os cativos teñen que enredar.The children must play.
* captive, prisoner

### Adjective

cativo (feminine cativa, masculine plural cativos, feminine plural cativas)
* bad; of poor quality
    Está a chover; hoxe temos un tempo cativo
       It's raining; we have bad weather today
* small
    Synonym: pequeno
* hapless
* needy

#### Related terms

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

### References

* 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

### Further reading

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

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin captīvus (“captive”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈtiβo/

### Noun

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

#### Related terms

* cativar
* catividade

### Adjective

cativo m
* 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?"

#### Descendants

* Galician: cativo
* Portuguese: cativo

### Further reading

* 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: ILG
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “catiuo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈt͡ʃi.vu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈt͡ʃi.vu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaˈt͡ʃi.vo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈti.vu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈti.vu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈti.bu/ [kɐˈti.βu]
* Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧vo

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

cativo m (plural cativos, feminine cativa, feminine plural cativas)
* captive, prisoner
    Synonym: prisioneiro
* slave
    Synonym: escravo

##### Related terms

* cativar
* cativeiro

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cativo
* first-person singular present indicative of cativar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈtibo/ [kaˈt̪i.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -ibo
* Syllabification: ca‧ti‧vo

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

cativo m (plural cativos)
* Prioria copaifera, a tree of the American tropics.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cativo
* first-person singular present indicative of cativar

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10