malvado
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish malvado, itself borrowed from Old Occitan malvat, from Vulgar Latin *malifatius; see there for further information. Cognate with French mauvais and Italian malvagio.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: mal‧va‧do
AdjectiveEdit
malvado m (feminine singular malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas, comparable)
InflectionEdit
Inflection of malvado
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | |
positive | malvado | malvada | malvados | malvadas |
comparative | mais malvado | mais malvada | mais malvados | mais malvadas |
superlative | o mais malvado malvadíssimo |
a mais malvada malvadíssima |
os mais malvados malvadíssimos |
as mais malvadas malvadíssimas |
augmentative | — | — | — | — |
diminutive | — | — | — | — |
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old Occitan malvat, itself from Vulgar Latin *malifatius;[1] see there for further information. Cognates include Catalan malvat, Old French malvais (modern mauvais), and Italian malvagio.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
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 quote)
Derived termsEdit
- bruja malvada (“wicked witch”)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “malvado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN