cativo
Portuguese, noun/kaˈt͡ʃi.vu/
cativo is spelled C-A-T-I-V-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 35,921st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cativo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “captive, prisoner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cativar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “refém”.
What does cativo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecaptive, prisoner
- 2
masculineslave
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cativar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. prisioneiro de guerra 2. preso 3. seduzido 4. pequeno, de inferior qualidade, ruim
noun: 1. refém 2. criança, neno
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cativo
- cativos plural
- cativa feminine
- cativas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cativo?
- Brazil /kaˈt͡ʃi.vu/
- Portugal /kɐˈti.vu/
- Portugal /kɐˈti.bu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cativo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cativo in Portuguese?
cativo appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).