excomungado

Galician

Participle

excomungado (feminine excomungada, masculine plural excomungados, feminine plural excomungadas)

  1. past participle of excomungar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Past participle of excomungar.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.ko.mũˈɡa.du/, /es.ko.mũˈɡa.du/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃ.ko.mũˈɡa.du/, /eʃ.ko.mũˈɡa.du/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /es.ko.mũˈɡa.do/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐjʃ.ku.mũˈɡa.du/ [ɐjʃ.ku.mũˈɡa.ðu]
    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ejʃ.ku.mũˈɡa.du/ [ejʃ.ku.mũˈɡa.ðu]
    • (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /ejʃ.ku.mũˈɡa.du/ [ejʃ.ku.mũˈɡa.ðu]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /eʃ.ku.mũˈɡa.du/ [eʃ.ku.mũˈɡa.ðu]

  • Hyphenation: ex‧co‧mun‧ga‧do

Adjective

excomungado (feminine excomungada, masculine plural excomungados, feminine plural excomungadas)

  1. excommunicate (having suffered excommunication)
  2. cursed (having been cursed)
    Synonyms: maldito, amaldiçoado
  3. (figurative) loathsome, detestable (highly disagreeable)
    • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Sinha Victoria [Victoria]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 65:
      Se vendesse as gallinhas e a marrã? Infelizmente a excommungada raposa tinha comido a pedrez, a mais gorda. Precisava dar uma licção á raposa. Ia armar o mundeo junto do poleiro e quebrar o espinhaço daquella semvergonha.
      What if she sold the chickens and the young sow? Unfortunately the damned fox had eaten the spotted hen, the plumpest one. She had to teach the fox a lesson. She was going to set up a trap by the perch and break that rascal's back.

Noun

excomungado m (plural excomungados, feminine excomungada, feminine plural excomungadas)

  1. (theology) Satan
  2. (figurative, derogatory) a detestable person; a rascal, a scoundrel
    • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “O soldado amarello [The Yellow Soldier]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 158:
      Dois excommungados tinham-lhe cahido em cima, um ferro batera-lhe no peito, outro nas costas, e elle se arrastara tiritando como um frango molhado. Tudo porque se esquentara e dissera uma palavra inconsideradamente.
      Two scoundrels had fallen on top of him, a club had hit his chest, another his back, and he had crawled shivering like a wet chicken. All because he had gotten heated and said an inconsiderate word.

Participle

excomungado (feminine excomungada, masculine plural excomungados, feminine plural excomungadas)

  1. past participle of excomungar

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