caitiff

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A base or despicable person; a wretch.
2. (obsolete) A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave.
3. (archaic) A villain, a coward or wretch.

Adj

Especially despicable; cowardly

Sinónimos

cowardly

poltroon

bastard

beastly

beggarly

brock

chicken-hearted

chicken-livered

chickenshit

clutch

coward

craven

creep

cringer

crud

crum

crump

cur

currish

dastardly

drip

faint-hearted

forlorn

frog

🐸

fucker

gink

gook

grifter

groveller

heck

jerk

lowlife

low life

miserable

putrid

raff

recreant

riffraff

rip

rotter

schlep

schlepp

schmo

schmuck

schnook

scoundrel

scum

scut

shit

💩

slicker

Traducións

covard

indigne

menyspreable

Dreckskerl

feig

gemein

Hundsfott

Schweinehund

memmenhaft

hasenherzig

Sumpfblute

- Arschloch

Abschaum -s

άθλιος

الأسير، سيء الحظ

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈkeɪtɪf/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: caitif

Relativo a Old French: chaitif

Relativo a francés: chétif

Relativo a Middle Dutch: keytyf

Relativo a italiano: cattivo

In summary

From Middle English caitif, from Anglo-Norman caitif (“captive”), akin to Old French chaitif (French chétif) and Middle Dutch keytyf, from a Vulgar Latin *cactīvus alteration via Gaulish influence from Latin captīvus (“captive”); compare Italian cattivo (“bad, wicked”). Doublet of captive.