animus laedandi

phrase

The verdict

“animus laedandi” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
15
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: expressão latina usada no direito penal com o significado de "intenção de ferir", ou seja, a vontade (dolo) de causar danos físicos e/ou psicológicos em outrem

Key facts for animus laedandi
PropertyValue
Headwordanimus laedandi
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “animus laedandi” sits in Portuguese frequency

animus laedandi falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for animus laedandi is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "expressão latina usada no direito penal com o significado de "intenção de ferir", ou seja, a vontade (dolo) de causar danos físicos e/ou psicológicos em outrem".

No misspelling variants are generated for animus laedandi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is animus laedandi, spelled A-N-I-M-U-S- -L-A-E-D-A-N-D-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    expressão latina usada no direito penal com o significado de "intenção de ferir", ou seja, a vontade (dolo) de causar danos físicos e/ou psicológicos em outrem

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "animus laedandi"?
"animus laedandi" is spelled A-N-I-M-U-S- -L-A-E-D-A-N-D-I.
What does "animus laedandi" mean?
As a phrase, "animus laedandi" means: expressão latina usada no direito penal com o significado de "intenção de ferir", ou seja, a vontade (dolo) de causar danos físicos e/ou psicológicos em outrem
What language does "animus laedandi" come from?
"animus laedandi" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “animus laedandi”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-I-M-U-S- -L-A-E-D-A-N-D-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.