malfusso

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish marfuz (traitor, treacher), from Arabic مَرْفُوض (marfūḍ), past participle of رَفَضَ (rafaḍa, to refuse, deny).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /malˈfus.so/
  • Rhymes: -usso
  • Hyphenation: mal‧fùs‧so

Adjective

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malfusso (feminine malfussa, masculine plural malfussi, feminine plural malfusse)

  1. (archaic) wretched
    Synonym: sciagurato
    • 1478, Luigi Pulci, “Canto decimoquarto [Fourteenth Canto]”, in Morgante[1], Felice Le Monnier, published 1855, page 283:
      Non pensi tu che in ciel sia più giustizia,
      malfusso, ladro, strupatore e mecco,
      fornicator, uom pien d’ogni malizia,
      ruffian, briccone, e sacrilego e becco?
      You don't think there's any more justice in heaven, do you, you wretch, thief, rapist and adulterer, fornicator, man full of malice, pander, scoundrel, sacrileger and cuckold?

Further reading

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  • malfusso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • malfusso in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication