cativar
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/ [ka.t͡ʃiˈva(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ka.t͡ʃiˈva(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ka.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/ [ka.t͡ʃiˈva(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.t͡ʃiˈva(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.tiˈvaɾ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.tiˈbaɾ/ [kɐ.tiˈβaɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.tiˈva.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧var
Verb
cativar (first-person singular present cativo, first-person singular preterite cativei, past participle cativado)
- to captivate, to charm, to seduce, to attract
- 2015, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe, Pelekanos Books, →ISBN:
- O que significa "cativar"? – É uma coisa de que toda a gente se esqueceu - disse a raposa. Significa criar laços.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to dominate
- to capture
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cativar.
Further reading
- “cativar” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “cativar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish
Verb
cativar (first-person singular present cativo, first-person singular preterite cativé, past participle cativado)
- Obsolete spelling of cautivar
Conjugation
Further reading
- “cativar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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