maligne

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin malignus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈliŋ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maˈliŋ.ne]

Adjective

maligne (feminine maligna, masculine and feminine plural malignes)

1. malignant

   Antonym: benigne

Further reading

• “maligne” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “maligne”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “maligne” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “maligne” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

maligne (not comparable)

1. (medicine) malignant

   Synonym: kwaadaardig

   Antonym: benigne

Inflection

Declension of maligne
uninflected	maligne
inflected	maligne
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		maligne
indefinite	m./f. sing.	maligne
	n. sing.	maligne
	plural	maligne
definite		maligne
partitive		malignes

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.liɲ/

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• Rhymes: -iɲ

Adjective

maligne

1. feminine singular of malin

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Interlingua

Adjective

maligne (comparative plus maligne, superlative le plus maligne)

1. malign

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Italian

Adjective

maligne f pl

1. feminine plural of maligno

Anagrams

• legnami, magline

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) maligne

1. vocative masculine singular of malignus

References

• “maligne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “maligne”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• maligne in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French maligne, from Latin malignus.

Alternative forms

• malign, malygne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈliːn(ə)/, /maˈli(n)ɡn(ə)/

Adjective

maligne

1. evil, malicious, malign
2. (pathology, astrology) harmful

Related terms

• malignen

Descendants

• English: malign
• Scots: maling (obsolete)

References

• “malīgne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

maligne

1. Alternative form of malignen

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

maligne

1. definite singular/plural of malign

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

maligne

1. definite singular/plural of malign