malquisto
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /mawˈkis.tu/ [maʊ̯ˈkis.tu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /mawˈkiʃ.tu/ [maʊ̯ˈkiʃ.tu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /mawˈkis.to/ [maʊ̯ˈkis.to]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /malˈkiʃ.tu/ [maɫˈkiʃ.tu]
- Hyphenation: mal‧quis‧to
Adjective
malquisto (feminine malquista, masculine plural malquistos, feminine plural malquistas)
Spanish
Etymology
Derived from an archaic irregular participle form quisto of the verb querer (to love). See Latin quaesītus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /malˈkisto/ [malˈkis.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -isto
- Syllabification: mal‧quis‧to
Adjective
malquisto (feminine malquista, masculine plural malquistos, feminine plural malquistas)
- unpopular, unliked
- 2015 October 3, “Jarnés”, in El País[1]:
- Tuvo que exilarse a México tras la guerra incivil, sufriendo el ostracismo impuesto por los vencedores y siendo malquisto por los inquisidores del “compromiso” literario, que miraba con desdén.
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Verb
malquisto
- first-person singular present indicative of malquistar
Further reading
- “malquisto”, 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