malade

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See also: målade

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle French malade, from Old French malade, from Latin male habitus (ill-kept, not in good condition).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ma.lad/
  • (file)

Adjective[edit]

malade (plural malades)

  1. ill, unwell, sick
    Elle est si malade qu’elle ne peut pas venir.
    She is so ill that she cannot come.
  2. (informal) Mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental
    Synonyms: taré, cinglé, fou

Noun[edit]

malade m or f by sense (plural malades)

  1. an ill or sick person; a patient
  2. (informal) someone who is crazy; a nutcase
    • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 53:
      "Ciboire! Il a joui en l’étranglant! C’est un hostie de malade!."
      "What the hell! He came while strangling him. He's a damn nutcase!"
  3. (colloquial) nut (extreme enthusiast)
    Synonyms: fou m, folle f
    C’est un malade de cinéma.He's a cinema nut.

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Further reading[edit]

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French malade.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

malade (strong nominative masculine singular malader, not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, dated) ill, unwell, sick

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • malade” in Duden online
  • malade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French malade, from Latin male habitus (ill-kept, not in good condition).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Adjective[edit]

malade m or f

  1. (Jersey) ill

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Old French[edit]

Adjective[edit]

malade m (oblique and nominative feminine singular malade)

  1. ill, unwell, sick

Descendants[edit]

  • French: malade