maldade

Galician

Alternative forms

• maldá

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese maldade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin malitātem, from Latin malus. By surface analysis, mal +‎ -dade. Compare Portuguese maldade, Spanish maldad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malˈdaðɪ], [malˈda]

Noun

maldade f (plural maldades)

1. malice

   Synonym: malicia

2. wickedness, meanness

   Antonym: bondade

   • 1934, Castelao, Os dous de sempre, page 127:

     […] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte.

     […] employees don't let him oppress them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.

Related terms

• mal

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “maldade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “maldade”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “maldade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “maldade”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “maldade”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin malitātem, from Latin malus. By surface analysis, mal +‎ -dade. Compare Spanish maldad.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mawˈda.d͡ʒi/ [maʊ̯ˈda.d͡ʒi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mawˈda.d͡ʒi/ [maʊ̯ˈda.d͡ʒi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mawˈda.de/ [maʊ̯ˈda.de]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /malˈda.dɨ/ [maɫˈda.ðɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ
• Hyphenation: mal‧da‧de

Noun

maldade f (plural maldades)

1. malice
2. wickedness
3. wrongdoing

Antonyms

• bondade

Related terms

• mal, mau