🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

amaldiçoado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: a-mal-dee-soo-a-do

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cursed/kɜːrst/
adjectiveverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O tesouro amaldiçoado trouxe apenas infortúnio."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Under a curse; afflicted with misfortune or evil.

    "The cursed treasure brought nothing but sorrow to its owners."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense of curse; to have invoked a curse upon someone or something.

    "He cursed the day he made that decision."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'cursed' originates from the Old English 'cursian', which means to invoke a curse. It has roots in the Proto-Germanic '*kursōną', which is related to the act of cursing or invoking evil. Over time, the meaning has evolved to encompass both the act of cursing and the state of being cursed.

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