desleal
Galician
Adjective
desleal m or f (plural desleais)
- not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true
Antonyms
- leal
Derived terms
- deslealmente
Old French
Adjective
desleal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular desleal or desleale)
- disloyal (not loyal)
- (Can we date this quote?), Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
- "Ce est li chiés
De cest chevalier que tu as
Conquis ; et, voir, einz ne trovas
Si felon ne si desleal.["]- "This is the head
Of the knight that you
conquered; and see! Never will you find
Such an evil and disloyal knight
- "This is the head
-
Declension
Declension of desleal
Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Subject | desleax | desleal (later desleale) | desleal |
Oblique | desleal | |||
Plural | Subject | desleal | desleax (later desleales) | |
Oblique | desleax | desleax (later desleales)) |
Antonyms
- leal
Derived terms
- deslealté
Descendants
- → English: disloyal
- French: déloyal
Portuguese
Etymology
From des- + leal.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /dez.leˈaw/ [dez.leˈaʊ̯], /d͡ʒiz.leˈaw/ [d͡ʒiz.leˈaʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /deʒ.leˈaw/ [deʒ.leˈaʊ̯], /d͡ʒiʒ.leˈaw/ [d͡ʒiʒ.leˈaʊ̯]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /dez.leˈaw/ [dez.leˈaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨʒˈljal/ [dɨʒˈljaɫ]
- Rhymes: -al, -aw
- Hyphenation: des‧le‧al
Adjective
desleal m or f (plural desleais)
- not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true
- 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Conde de Azevedo and António Feliciano de Castilho, Dom Quixote:
- Que te demoras, Leonela, em ir chamar ao mais desleal amigo de quantos viu a Rosa divina, de quantos a noite nunca favoreceu?
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- concorrência desleal ― unfair competition
- Antonym: leal
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Derived terms
- deslealmente
Spanish
Etymology
From des- + leal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desleˈal/ [d̪es.leˈal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: des‧le‧al
Adjective
desleal (plural desleales)
- not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true
- competencia desleal ― unfair competition
- Antonym: leal
Derived terms
- deslealmente
Further reading
- “desleal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014