maleducado

See also: mal-educado

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *(s)molos?

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus

Latin maleder.

Spanish mal-

Spanish educado

Spanish maleducado

From mal- + educado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maleduˈkado/ [ma.le.ð̞uˈka.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ma‧le‧du‧ca‧do

Adjective

maleducado (feminine maleducada, masculine plural maleducados, feminine plural maleducadas)

1. bad-mannered, ill-mannered, rude

   Synonym: grosero

Related terms

• maleducación

Participle

maleducado (feminine maleducada, masculine plural maleducados, feminine plural maleducadas)

1. past participle of maleducar

Further reading

• “maleducado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025