animus laedandi
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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | animus laedandi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “animus laedandi” sits in Portuguese frequency
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
- 1expressão 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
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Using “animus laedandi”
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- 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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