correctivo

correctivo (feminine correctiva, masculine plural correctivos, feminine plural correctivas)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of corretivo; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

correctivo m (plural correctivos)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of corretivo; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

• “correctivo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin correctivus, from correctus.

correctivo (feminine correctiva, masculine plural correctivos, feminine plural correctivas)

1. corrective

correctivo m (plural correctivos)

1. corrective, punishment

• “correctivo”, 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