atávico

See also: atavico

Portuguese

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

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

(biology) atavistic (of the recurrence of a trait after an absence of generations)
Synonym: atavístico
atavistic (of a throwback)
Synonym: atavístico
atavistic (of the return of earlier, more primitive behaviour)
Synonym: atavístico

FWOTD – 5 April 2024

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

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

atavistic
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.
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"