malvado

Galician

Participle

malvado (feminine malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas)

1. past participle of malvar

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish malvado, from Old Occitan malvat, from Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mawˈva.du/ [maʊ̯ˈva.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mawˈva.du/ [maʊ̯ˈva.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mawˈva.do/ [maʊ̯ˈva.do]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /malˈva.du/ [maɫˈva.ðu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /malˈva.du/ [maɫˈva.ðu]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /malˈba.du/ [maɫˈβa.ðu]

• Hyphenation: mal‧va‧do

Adjective

malvado (feminine malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas, comparable, comparative mais malvado, superlative o mais malvado or malvadíssimo)

1. bad; evil; wicked

   Synonym: mau

Noun

malvado m (plural malvados, feminine malvada, feminine plural malvadas)

1. a malefactor, evildoer

   Synonym: celerado

Derived terms

nouns

• malvadez f

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan malvat, from Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /malˈbado/ [malˈβ̞a.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: mal‧va‧do

Adjective

malvado (feminine malvada, masculine plural malvados, feminine plural malvadas)

1. evil, wicked, mean, bad

   Synonym: perverso

   Antonym: bueno

   • 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”.

     When the son explained everything to the father, the father asked him: "How have you become so wicked?". "Wicked, perhaps," comments the narrator. "But happy."

Derived terms

• bruja malvada (“wicked witch”)

Related terms

• maldad
• maleado
• malo

Descendants

• → Portuguese: malvado

References

• Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

Further reading

• “malvado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10