nativo
Portuguese, noun/naˈt͡ʃi.vu/
nativo is spelled N-A-T-I-V-O (6 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,632nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nativo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “native (person who is native to a place)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does nativo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
nativo (belonging or relating to someone by birth)
- 2
native (relating to the people who originally inhabited a region)
- 3
native (written to run on a particular processor)
noun
- 1
masculinenative (person who is native to a place)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que nasce com o indivíduo 2. natural 3. falante
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 nativo
- nativa feminine
- nativos masculine plural
- nativas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nativo?
- Brazil /naˈt͡ʃi.vu/
- Portugal /nɐˈti.vu/
- Portugal /nɐˈti.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 nativo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nativo in Portuguese?
nativo appears 6.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).