maldade
Galician
Alternative forms
- maldá
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese maldade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin malitātem, from Latin malus. By surface analysis, mal + -dade. Compare Portuguese maldade, Spanish maldad.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [malˈdaðɪ], [malˈda]
Noun
maldade f (plural maldades)
- malice
- Synonym: malicia
- wickedness, meanness
- Antonym: bondade
- 1934, Castelao, Os dous de sempre, page 127:
- […] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte.
- […] employees don't let him oppress them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.
Related terms
References
- “maldade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “maldade” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “maldade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “maldade” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “maldade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Late Latin malitātem, from Latin malus. By surface analysis, mal + -dade. Compare Spanish maldad.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /mawˈda.d͡ʒi/ [maʊ̯ˈda.d͡ʒi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /mawˈda.de/ [maʊ̯ˈda.de]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /malˈda.dɨ/ [maɫˈda.ðɨ]
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ
- Hyphenation: mal‧da‧de
Antonyms
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