lectivo
Portuguese
Adjective
lectivo (feminine lectiva, masculine plural lectivos, feminine plural lectivas)
- Superseded spelling of letivo. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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 lēctus, from Latin lego (“to read”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leɡˈtibo/ [leɣ̞ˈt̪i.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -ibo
- Syllabification: lec‧ti‧vo
Adjective
lectivo (feminine lectiva, masculine plural lectivos, feminine plural lectivas)
- (relational) teaching, school, schooling
- el año lectivo ― the school year
Further reading
- “lectivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014