adoptivo

adoptīvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of adoptīvus

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

1. Superseded spelling of adotivo. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

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)

• adoptar
• adopción

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