maleficium
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]maleficium n (genitive maleficiī or maleficī); second declension
- crime, misdeed, offence, evil deed, wrong, mischief
- injury, hurt
- Synonyms: damnum, incommoditās, dētrīmentum, calamitās, iniūria, vulnus, noxa, fraus, pauperiēs
- Antonyms: beneficium, favor
- fraud, deception
- harmful sorcery, black magic (post-Augustinian)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | maleficium | maleficia |
Genitive | maleficiī maleficī1 |
maleficiōrum |
Dative | maleficiō | maleficiīs |
Accusative | maleficium | maleficia |
Ablative | maleficiō | maleficiīs |
Vocative | maleficium | maleficia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “maleficium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maleficium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maleficium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- maleficium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to return evil for good: benefacta maleficiis pensare
- to return good for evil: maleficia benefactis remunerari
- to return good for evil: pro maleficiis beneficia reddere
- his guilty conscience gives him no rest: conscientiae maleficiorum stimulant aliquem
- to return evil for good: benefacta maleficiis pensare