desleal

Galician

Adjective

desleal m or f (plural desleais)

1. not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true

Antonyms

• leal

Derived terms

• deslealmente

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Old French

Adjective

desleal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular desleal or desleale)

1. disloyal (not loyal)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     "Ce est li chiés
     De cest chevalier que tu as
     Conquis ; et, voir, einz ne trovas
     Si felon ne si desleal.["]

     "This is the head
     Of the knight that you
     conquered; and see! Never will you find
     Such an evil and disloyal knight

Declension

Declension of desleal

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	desleax	desleal (later desleale)	desleal
	Oblique	desleal			desleal (later desleale)	desleal
Plural	Subject	desleal	desleax (later desleales)		desleal
	Oblique	desleax	desleax (later desleales))		desleal

Antonyms

• leal

Derived terms

• deslealté

Descendants

• → English: disloyal
• French: déloyal

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Portuguese

Etymology

From des- +‎ leal.

Adjective

desleal m or f (plural desleais)

1. not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true
   • 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Conde de Azevedo and António Feliciano de Castilho, Dom Quixote:

     Que te demoras, Leonela, em ir chamar ao mais desleal amigo de quantos viu a Rosa divina, de quantos a noite nunca favoreceu?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   concorrência desleal ― unfair competition

Antonyms

• leal

Derived terms

• deslealmente

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Spanish

Etymology

From des- +‎ leal.

Adjective

desleal m or f (masculine and feminine plural desleales)

1. not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true

   competencia desleal ― unfair competition

Antonyms

• leal