malfusso
Italian
FWOTD – 24 October 2020
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish marfuz (“traitor, treacher”), from Arabic مَرْفُوض (marfūḍ), past participle of رَفَضَ (rafaḍa, “to refuse, deny”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /malˈfus.so/
- Rhymes: -usso
- Hyphenation: mal‧fùs‧so
Adjective
malfusso (feminine malfussa, masculine plural malfussi, feminine plural malfusse)
- (archaic) wretched
- Synonym: sciagurato
- 1478, Luigi Pulci, “Canto decimoquarto [Fourteenth Canto]”, in Morgante, 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
- malfusso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- malfusso in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication