atrativo

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• atractivo (pre-1990 spelling)
• attractivo (pre-reform)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin attractīvus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.tɾaˈt͡ʃi.vu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.tɾaˈt͡ʃi.vu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.tɾaˈt͡ʃi.vo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɾaˈti.vu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɾaˈti.vu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɾaˈti.bu/ [ɐ.tɾaˈti.βu]

• Hyphenation: a‧tra‧ti‧vo

Noun

atrativo m (plural atrativos)

1. attractiveness
2. attraction
   • 1905, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “Lincoln e Grant [Lincoln and Grant]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, page 277:

     Este nosso modesto Jardim da Europa à beira-mar plantado, como a caridosa phantasia do poeta D. Jayme lhe chamou, tem poucos attractivos que chamem os viajantes.

     This modest European Garden planted by the sea of ours, as the poet D. Jayme’s charitable fantasy called it, has few attractions to draw travelers.

Adjective

atrativo (feminine atrativa, masculine plural atrativos, feminine plural atrativas)

1. attractive

Related terms

• atração
• atrair

Further reading

• “atrativo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024