efectivamente
Portuguese
Etymology
From efectivo + -mente.
Adverb
efectivamente (comparable, comparative mais efectivamente, superlative o mais efectivamente)
- Superseded spelling of efetivamente. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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
From efectivo + -mente.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /efeɡˌtibaˈmente/ [e.feɣ̞ˌt̪i.β̞aˈmẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: e‧fec‧ti‧va‧men‧te
Adverb
efectivamente
- effectively
- indeed, quite right
Further reading
- “efectivamente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014