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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese malfadado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), "ill-fated". Compare with Spanish malhadado.
Pronunciation
Adjective
malfadado (feminine malfadada, masculine plural malfadados, feminine plural malfadadas)
- having a bad fate; ill-fated, disgraced, unlucky
- Synonyms: desgraciado, desventurado, infeliz
1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 262:Et uós, donas et donzelas catiuas et malfadadas, ¿que faredes?, que maas nouas oyredes dos uossos maridos et amjgos; ca, ssen falla, todos serã mortos.- And what will you, pitiful and unlucky ladies and maidens, do? What bad news you'll hear about your husbands and friends? because, there is no doubt, all of them will be dead
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “malfadado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “malfad”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “malfadado”, 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), “malfadado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Portuguese
Etymology
From mal- + fado + -ado.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -adu
- Hyphenation: mal‧fa‧da‧do
Adjective
malfadado (feminine malfadada, masculine plural malfadados, feminine plural malfadadas)
- having a bad fate; ill-fated, disgraced, unlucky
- Synonyms: desgraçado, desditoso, inditoso, desventurado, infeliz, infortunado