maléfico

Borrowed from Latin maleficus, from male (“badly, evilly”) + facio (“do”).

maléfico (feminine maléfica, masculine plural maléficos, feminine plural maléficas)

1. evil
2. harmful

• “maléfico”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “maléfico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin maleficus, from male (“badly, evilly”) + faciō (“do”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈlefiko/ [maˈle.fi.ko]
• Rhymes: -efiko
• Syllabification: ma‧lé‧fi‧co

maléfico (feminine maléfica, masculine plural maléficos, feminine plural maléficas)

1. evil

   Synonym: malvado

• “maléfico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024