evil
Signification (English)
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- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- Morally corrupt.
- Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
- (slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
Concepts
faire du mal
personne méchante
satané
Synonyms
do wrong
evil person
bad thing
wicked things
enormous
enormity
great fall
don’t
contrary to recognized behaviour
deadly
injury harm
Evil
bad spirit
cacodemonical
evilminded
bad to the core
effect of an imprecation
bad deed
bad omen
do evil
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈiːvɪl/
Étymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel, Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). See -le for the supposed suffix. Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”).
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