preservativo

Galician

Adjective

preservativo (feminine preservativa, masculine plural preservativos, feminine plural preservativas)

1. preservative

Noun

preservativo m (plural preservativos)

1. condom

   Synonyms: condón, profiláctico

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pre.ser.vaˈti.vo/, /pre.zer.vaˈti.vo/
• Rhymes: -ivo
• Hyphenation: pre‧ser‧va‧tì‧vo

Adjective

preservativo (feminine preservativa, masculine plural preservativi, feminine plural preservative)

1. preservative

Noun

preservativo m (plural preservativi)

1. prophylactic, condom

   Synonym: profilattico

   Synonyms: guanto, goldone (slang)

Related terms

• preservare

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾe.zeʁ.vaˈt͡ʃi.vu/ [pɾe.zeɦ.vaˈt͡ʃi.vu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾe.zeʁ.vaˈt͡ʃi.vu/ [pɾe.zeɦ.vaˈt͡ʃi.vu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /pɾe.zeɾ.vaˈt͡ʃi.vu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /pɾe.zeʁ.vaˈt͡ʃi.vu/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /pɾe.zeɻ.vaˈt͡ʃi.vu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾe.zeʁ.vaˈt͡ʃi.vo/ [pɾe.zeɦ.vaˈt͡ʃi.vo]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾɨ.zɨɾ.vɐˈti.vu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾɨ.zɨɾ.vɐˈti.vu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾɨ.zɨɾ.bɐˈti.bu/ [pɾɨ.zɨɾ.βɐˈti.βu]

• Hyphenation: pre‧ser‧va‧ti‧vo

Adjective

preservativo (feminine preservativa, masculine plural preservativos, feminine plural preservativas)

1. preservative

Noun

preservativo m (plural preservativos)

1. preservative
2. condom

   Synonyms: (Brazil) camisinha, (Brazil) camisa de vênus, (Mozambique) jeito

Further reading

• “preservativo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “preservativo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾeseɾbaˈtibo/ [pɾe.seɾ.β̞aˈt̪i.β̞o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ibo
• Syllabification: pre‧ser‧va‧ti‧vo

Adjective

preservativo (feminine preservativa, masculine plural preservativos, feminine plural preservativas)

1. preservative

Noun

preservativo m (plural preservativos)

1. condom

   Synonyms: condón, profiláctico

   • 2015 July 28, José María Mena, “El pecado y el Constitucional”, in El País‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 June 2019:

     Un farmacéutico de Sevilla decidió carecer de existencias de preservativos y de un medicamento con el principio activo lovonorgestrel 0,750 mgs., conocido como “la píldora del día después” (PDD).

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Further reading

• “preservativo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense