malvado
Galician edit
Participle edit
malvado (feminine malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas)
- past participle of malvar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish malvado, from Old Occitan malvat, from Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mal‧va‧do
Adjective edit
malvado (feminine malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas, comparable, comparative mais malvado, superlative o mais malvado or malvadíssimo)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Occitan malvat, from Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
malvado (feminine malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas)
- evil, wicked, mean, bad
- 2020 September 23, “Venganza, enredos y trapos sucios en Saint-Germain-des-Près”, in El País[1]:
- Cuando el hijo se lo explica todo al padre, este le pregunta: “¿Cómo has podido volverte tan malvado?”. “Malvado, quizá”, apostilla el narrador. “Pero feliz”.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms edit
- bruja malvada (“wicked witch”)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Portuguese: malvado
References edit
- Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN
Further reading edit
- “malvado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014