adoptivo

Learned borrowing from Latin adoptīvus.

adoptivo (feminine adoptiva, masculine plural adoptivos, feminine plural adoptivas)

1. adoptive

• adoptar

• “adoptivo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

adoptīvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of adoptīvus

adoptivo (feminine adoptiva, masculine plural adoptivos, feminine plural adoptivas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of adotivo. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Borrowed from Latin adoptīvus.

• IPA^(key): /adobˈtibo/ [a.ð̞oβ̞ˈt̪i.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ibo
• Syllabification: a‧dop‧ti‧vo

adoptivo (feminine adoptiva, masculine plural adoptivos, feminine plural adoptivas)

1. foster, adoptive (providing parental care to unrelated children)
2. foster (receiving such care)

• “adoptivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014