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

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:

     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

• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014