vilão

See also: vilao and vilaõ

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin vīllānus (“farm worker”), from vīlla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βiˈlã.u/

Noun

vilão m (plural vilãos)

1. villein, peasant
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 128 (facsimile):

     Eſta e do corpo de n[oſtr]o ſennor / que un vilão metera en hũa / ſa colmẽa por aver muito mel / i muita cera […]

     This one is (about) the body of our Lord, which a peasant placed in one of his beehives because there was a lot of honey and a lot of wax […]

Descendants

• Galician: vilán
• Portuguese: vilão

Portuguese

vilão

Alternative forms

• vilaõ, villaõ, villão (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vilão, from Late Latin vīllānus (“farm worker”), from vīlla. Cognate with Galician vilán and Spanish villano.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈlɐ̃w̃/ [viˈlɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /viˈlɐ̃w̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /viˈlɐ̃w̃/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /biˈlɐ̃w̃/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: vi‧lão

Noun

vilão m (plural vilãos or vilães or vilões, feminine vilã or viloa, feminine plural vilãs or viloas)

1. villain (a vile, wicked person)
2. villain (bad person in a work of fiction)

   Synonym: malfeitor

   Antonym: herói

3. something which causes a problem
4. (historical) villein (a feudal tenant)
5. (obsolete) a non-noble who lives in a city or village

Derived terms

• cavaleiro-vilão

Adjective

vilão (feminine vilã or viloa, masculine plural vilãos or vilões or vilães, feminine plural vilãs or viloas)

1. villainous (of, relating to, or appropriate to a villain)

   Synonyms: vilanaço, vilanaz, vilanesco

2. (uncommon) coarse (lacking refinement)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grosseiro

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:grosseiro

3. vile; wicked

   Synonyms: maldoso, maligno, malvado, mau, perverso, vil

   Antonyms: benigno, bom, bondoso

4. (obsolete) village or city-dwelling

   Synonym: urbano

   Antonyms: campestre, rural

Related terms

• vil
• vila
• vilãmente
• vilanaço
• vilanagem
• vilanaz
• vilanesco
• vilania

 

References

• “vilão” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “vilão” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.