selectivo

Portuguese

Adjective

selectivo (feminine selectiva, masculine plural selectivos, feminine plural selectivas)

1. Superseded spelling of seletivo. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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.)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seleɡˈtibo/ [se.leɣ̞ˈt̪i.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ibo
• Syllabification: se‧lec‧ti‧vo

Adjective

selectivo (feminine selectiva, masculine plural selectivos, feminine plural selectivas)

1. selective, choosy

Derived terms

• selectivamente
• selectividad

 

Further reading

• “selectivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014