atávico

See also: atavico

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈta.vi.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈta.vi.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈta.vi.ko/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈta.vi.ku/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈta.vi.ku/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈta.bi.ku/ [ɐˈta.βi.ku]

• Hyphenation: a‧tá‧vi‧co

Adjective

atávico (feminine atávica, masculine plural atávicos, feminine plural atávicas)

1. (biology) atavistic (of the recurrence of a trait after an absence of generations)

   Synonym: atavístico

2. atavistic (of a throwback)

   Synonym: atavístico

3. atavistic (of the return of earlier, more primitive behaviour)

   Synonym: atavístico

Spanish

FWOTD – 5 April 2024

Etymology

From Latin atavus (“ancestor”), from at + avus (“grandfather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈtabiko/ [aˈt̪a.β̞i.ko]
• Rhymes: -abiko
• Syllabification: a‧tá‧vi‧co

Adjective

atávico (feminine atávica, masculine plural atávicos, feminine plural atávicas)

1. atavistic
2. ancestral
   • 2004, Joan Ortí Ferreres, La animación deportiva, el juego y los deportes alternativos:

     […] los juegos que en distintos momentos de su crecimiento van practicando los niños reproducen los grandes periodos evolutivos de nuestra especie y por tanto, tienen una tendencia atávica.

     […] the games that children practice in different moments of their lives reproduce the great period of our species y as a result, they have an ancestral tendency.

3. age-old

   un miedo atávico

   an age-old fear

   • a. 1918, Luis Bonafoux, “Chapter 55: Porquerías doradas”, in Gotas de sangre:

     […] desequilibrio atávico […]

     […] aged-old inbalance […]

   • 2011, Carlos Batà, El África de Thomas Sankara:

     Sankara se declara convencido de que para superar los problemas atávicos que afligen a los países de África, Asia y América Latina hay que rechazar «todos los modelos que charlatanes de todo tipo han intentado vendernos durante años»

     Sankara states his conviction that in order to overcome the age-old problems harassing the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America they have got to reject "all the models that all sorts of charlatans have been trying to sell us for years and years"

Derived terms

• atávicamente

 

Related terms

• atavismo

 

Further reading

• “atávico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28