Noun: cattivo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: cat‧tì‧vo
| Singular m | cattivo |
| Singular f | cattiva |
| Plural m | cattivi |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cattivo
nipotino,
monferrino,
tiburtino,
evacuato,
angloamericano,
setino,
cristiano,
saputo,
favorito,
sciabordito,
somaro,
somalo,
ostrogoto,
sicano,
ugonotto,
ragazzino,
proscritto,
comacino,
nordafricano,
nizzardo, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin captīvus (“captive” → “caught by the devil” → “bad”). Compare the semantic development of French chétif (“puny, scrawny”) and Galician cativo. See: Latin Nouns '
captīvus', Galician Nouns '
cativo'.
Verbs referencing "cattivo"
English Nouns
caitiff.
Translations