malefício
Portuguese, noun
malefício is spelled M-A-L-E-F-Í-C-I-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 132,552nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malefício is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “damage, harm (a negative consequence)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, maleficio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of maleficiar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que causa o mal, ato com a intenção de fazer mal”.
What does malefício mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedamage, harm (a negative consequence)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of maleficiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. que causa o mal, ato com a intenção de fazer mal 2. dano, prejuízo 3. feitiçaria
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of malefício
- malefícios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is malefício in Portuguese?
malefício appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).