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cautivo

cautivo is the obsolete form of cativo.

Meaning of cativo

Noun

cativo (plural cativos)

  1. Prioria copaifera, a flowering tree of Central and South America.
    • Thrusting up into the canopy, competing for sunlight with the algarrobo, grew the cativo tree, whose modern descendants grow to 120 feet.1999, George O. Poinar, The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World, page 15

Forms of cautivo

pluralcautivos

Questions about cautivo

What is cautivo the obsolete form of?
Cautivo is the obsolete form of cativo.

Words near cautivo in the dictionary

  1. cautious
  2. cautiouser
  3. cautiously
  4. cautiousness
  5. cautiousnesses
  6. cautivo
  7. Cautleyan
  8. Cautín
  9. Cauvery
  10. cauves
  11. cauzee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cautivo (page history and authors); cativo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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