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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French malestru, malastru, from Old Occitan malastruc, derived from mal (“bad”) + astruc (“lucky”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.leˈstru.o/
- Rhymes: -uo
- Hyphenation: ma‧le‧strù‧o
Adjective
malestruo (feminine malestrua, masculine plural malestrui, feminine plural malestrue)
- (obsolete) wretched, wicked
- Synonyms: malvagio, (archaic, literary) pravo, scellerato
Further reading
- malestruo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana