atávico

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧tá‧vi‧co === Adjective === atávico (feminine atávica, masculine plural atávicos, feminine plural atávicas) (biology) atavistic (of the recurrence of a trait after an absence of generations) Synonym: atavístico atavistic (of a throwback) Synonym: atavístico atavistic (of the return of earlier, more primitive behaviour) Synonym: atavístico === Further reading === “atávico”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “atávico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From Latin atavus (“ancestor”), from at + avus (“grandfather”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aˈtabiko/ [aˈt̪a.β̞i.ko] Rhymes: -abiko Syllabification: a‧tá‧vi‧co === Adjective === atávico (feminine atávica, masculine plural atávicos, feminine plural atávicas) ancestral age-old atavistic ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “atávico”, 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