retroactivo
Portuguese
Adjective
retroactivo (feminine retroactiva, masculine plural retroactivos, feminine plural retroactivas)
- pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of retroativo; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Further reading
- “retroactivo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Adjective
retroactivo (feminine retroactiva, masculine plural retroactivos, feminine plural retroactivas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “retroactivo”, 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