malifatius
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From malus (“bad”) + fātum (“fate”) + -ius; literally, “ill-fated”. Compare the name Bonifātius.
Adjective[edit]
malifātius (feminine malifātia, neuter malifātium); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)
Usage notes[edit]
Attested in French from ca. 1050 (Vie de saint Alexis)[3] and Occitan from the 12th century (works of Bernart de Ventadorn).[4]
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | malifātius | malifātia | malifātium | malifātiī | malifātiae | malifātia | |
| Genitive | malifātiī | malifātiae | malifātiī | malifātiōrum | malifātiārum | malifātiōrum | |
| Dative | malifātiō | malifātiō | malifātiīs | ||||
| Accusative | malifātium | malifātiam | malifātium | malifātiōs | malifātiās | malifātia | |
| Ablative | malifātiō | malifātiā | malifātiō | malifātiīs | |||
| Vocative | malifātie | malifātia | malifātium | malifātiī | malifātiae | malifātia | |
Descendants[edit]
(Shifted to the sense of 'bad' and 'evil'.)
- Franco-Provençal: môvés, môvé
- Old French: malvais, malveis, mauvais
- Old Occitan: malvatz, malvat; malvas, malvais, mauvais
References[edit]
- ^ https://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/37493
- ^ Haerle Philipp. 1955. Captivus, cattivo, chetif: Zur Einwirkung des Christentums auf die Terminologie der Moralbegriffe. Bern: Francke. Page 90.
- ^ “mauvais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “malifatius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 95