cautivo
- A person who is held captive or in confinement, typically as a prisoner of war or in a similar situation. nounThe soldier was kept as a cautivo by the enemy forces.After the shipwreck, the crew became cautivos of the island's inhabitants.
- Being in a state of captivity; not free. adjectiveThe cautivo bird longed to fly free in the open sky.Living as a cautivo, he dreamed of the day he would regain his freedom.