correctivo
Portuguese
Adjective
correctivo (feminine correctiva, masculine plural correctivos, feminine plural correctivas)
- Superseded spelling of corretivo. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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.)
Noun
correctivo m (plural correctivos)
- Superseded spelling of corretivo. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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.)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin correctivus, from correctus.
Adjective
correctivo (feminine correctiva, masculine plural correctivos, feminine plural correctivas)
- corrective
Derived terms
- violación correctiva
Related terms
- correcto
Noun
correctivo m (plural correctivos)
- corrective, punishment
Further reading
- “correctivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014