malícia

See also: malicia and maliciá

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin malitia. Doublet of malesa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [məˈli.si.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [maˈli.si.a]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -isia

Noun

malícia f (plural malícies)

1. malice

Derived terms

• maliciada
• maliciar

Related terms

• mal
• maliciós

Further reading

• “malícia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Galician

Noun

malícia f (plural malícias, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of malicia

Further reading

• “malícia”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *(s)molos?

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin -itia

Latin malitialbor.

Portuguese malícia

Learned borrowing from Latin malitia. Doublet of maleza.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈli.sjɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈli.sjɐ/

• Hyphenation: ma‧lí‧ci‧a

Noun

malícia f (plural malícias)

1. malice
2. (colloquial) suggestiveness, sexual innuendo or the propensity/ability to notice such occurrences
3. (Azores) a wink

Related terms

• mal, mau

Further reading

• “malícia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “malícia” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “malícia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “malícia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026