Noun: malhado
Gender:
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | malhado |
| Singular f | malhada |
| Plural m | malhados |
| Plural f | malhadas |
Sample Sentences
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Coordinate term: corcunda
Nouns inflected like malhado
desamparado,
perdulário,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
miliciano,
celibatário,
fiduciário,
favelado,
janeleiro,
safado,
sancto,
entomólogo,
ostrogodo,
sisudo,
bucaneiro,
alentejano,
beduíno,
faroleiro,
palestino,
georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From malha, or from Old Galician-Portuguese mallado, from an Iberian Vulgar Latin *mac(u)lātus, from Latin macula. Compare Spanish majada.
2. The origin of the "supporter of queen Maria II, liberal" sense is unclear. A popular theory postulates it was coined by partisans of Dom Miguel (Maria II's rival) in reference to an event where a mottled horse that was pulling Miguel's carriage went off-course, causing an accident. The "unruly" liberals, who disrespected Miguel's legitimacy were compared to this horse. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
mallado', Latin Nouns '
macula', Spanish Nouns '
majada'.
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