mala morte

Galician

From Old Galician-Portuguese maa morte (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): from mala (“bad”) morte (“death”).

mala morte f (plural malas mortes)

painful or violent death
- 1917, Luís Tobío, Rosiñas da Terra:
  [...] Lixeira dun buratiño / Lanzou sobr'ela unha araña, / I abrazandoa cos zancos, / Chantoulle logo as queixadas; / A mosca con mil lamentos / Perdón pedía e choraba; / Mais a araña vingadora / Dixoll'esta razón sabia: / « Morrerá de mala morte / Quen ó inocente maltrata»
  Swiftly, from a hole, a spider jump on her and embracing her with her legs, then she thrust her jaws; the fly, among a thousand laments, asked for forgiveness and cried; but the vengeful spider told her this wise motive: «They will die a bad death who the innocent hurts»

Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “maa morte”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mala morte”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “morte”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mala morte”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega