Alternative forms

• maldá

Etymology

From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#MALDADECategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#MALDADE maldade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Late Latin#MALDADECategory:Galician terms derived from Late Latin#MALDADE malitātem, from LatinCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#MALDADE malus. By surface analysis, mal +‎ -dadeCategory:Galician terms suffixed with -dade#MALDADE. Compare Portuguese maldade, Spanish maldad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malˈdaðɪ], [malˈda]Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#MALDADE

Noun

maldade f (plural maldades)Category:Galician lemmas#MALDADECategory:Galician nouns#MALDADECategory:Galician countable nouns#MALDADECategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#MALDADECategory:Galician feminine nouns#MALDADECategory:Pages with entries#MALDADECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MALDADE

1. malice

   Synonym: malicia

2. 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.

     Category:Galician terms with quotations#MALDADE

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “maldade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “maldade”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “maldade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “maldade”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “maldade”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

From Late LatinCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Late Latin#MALDADECategory:Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin#MALDADE malitātem, from LatinCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#MALDADE malus. By surface analysis, mal +‎ -dadeCategory:Portuguese terms suffixed with -dade#MALDADE. Compare Spanish maldad.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ad͡ʒi#MALDADECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ad͡ʒi/3 syllables#MALDADECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/adɨ#MALDADECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/adɨ/3 syllables#MALDADE
• Hyphenation: mal‧da‧de

Noun

maldade f (plural maldades)Category:Portuguese lemmas#MALDADECategory:Portuguese nouns#MALDADECategory:Portuguese countable nouns#MALDADECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#MALDADECategory:Portuguese feminine nouns#MALDADECategory:Pages with entries#MALDADECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MALDADE

1. malice
2. wickedness
3. wrongdoing

Further reading

• “maldade”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “maldade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026