malevolentia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin malevolēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin malevolentia

From malevolēns (“malevolent”) + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ma.ɫɛ.wɔˈɫɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ma.le.voˈlɛn.t͡si.a]

Noun

malevolentia f (genitive malevolentiae); first declension

1. malevolence, hatred, dislike, envy

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	malevolentia	malevolentiae
genitive	malevolentiae	malevolentiārum
dative	malevolentiae	malevolentiīs
accusative	malevolentiam	malevolentiās
ablative	malevolentiā	malevolentiīs
vocative	malevolentia	malevolentiae

Related terms

• maleficium
• malēvolēns
• malevolus

Descendants

• Catalan: malevolència
• Galician: malevolencia
• Italian: malevolenza
• Middle French: malevolence
  • → English: malevolence
• Portuguese: malevolência
• Spanish: malevolencia
• → Dutch: malevolentie
• → Finnish: malevolentia

References

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