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Borrowed from New Latin praeventīvus. Equivalent to prevent + -ive.

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِحْتِرَازِيّ (iḥtirāziyy) — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Armenian: կանխարգելիչ (kanxargeličʻ) — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Bulgarian: предпазен (predpazen) — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Catalan: preventiu — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Czech: preventivní — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Finnish: ennaltaehkäisevä — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Finnish: estävä — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• French: préventif — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• German: vorbeugend — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• German: präventiv — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• German: vorsorglich — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Irish: toirmeascach — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Japanese: 抑止力となる — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Norwegian Bokmål: forebyggende — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: førebyggjande — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Spanish: preventivo — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Swedish: förebyggande — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Tagalog: pang-apula — preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to
• Arabic: رَدْعِيّ (radʕiyy) — carried out to deter military aggression
• Bulgarian: превантивен (prevantiven) — carried out to deter military aggression
• Catalan: preventiu — carried out to deter military aggression
• Finnish: ennaltaehkäisevä — carried out to deter military aggression
• German: präventiv — carried out to deter military aggression
• Arabic: وِقَائِيّ (wiqāʔiyy) — slowing the development of an illness
• Armenian: կանխարգելիչ (kanxargeličʻ) — slowing the development of an illness
• Bulgarian: профилактичен (profilaktičen) — slowing the development of an illness
• Catalan: غارprofilàctic — slowing the development of an illness
• Finnish: ennaltaehkäisevä — slowing the development of an illness
• French: préventif — slowing the development of an illness
• German: vorbeugend — slowing the development of an illness
• German: präventiv — slowing the development of an illness
• Polish: zapobiegawczy — slowing the development of an illness
• Tagalog: pang-apula — slowing the development of an illness