malvado

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]
• 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”.

     (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