desleal

Galician

Adjective

desleal m or f (plural desleais)

1. not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true

   Antonym: leal

Derived terms

• deslealmente

Old French

Adjective

desleal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular desleal or desleale)

1. 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

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	desleax	desleal (later desleale)	desleal
	oblique	desleal			desleal (later desleale)	desleal
plural	subject	desleal	desleax (later desleales)		desleal
	oblique	desleax	desleax (later desleales))		desleal

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]

• (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]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨʒˈljal/ [dɨʒˈljaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨʒˈlja.li/

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: des‧le‧al

Adjective

desleal m or f (plural desleais)

1. not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true

   Antonym: leal

   concorrência desleal ― unfair competition

   • 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 quotation)

Derived terms

• deslealmente

Spanish

Etymology

From des- +‎ leal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /desleˈal/ [d̪es.leˈal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: des‧le‧al

Adjective

desleal m or f (masculine and feminine plural desleales)

1. not adhering to the rules of propriety, dishonest, unfair, disloyal, not true

   Antonym: leal

   competencia desleal ― unfair competition

Derived terms

• deslealmente

Further reading

• “desleal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10