malum

English

Etymology

From Latin malum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mälʹəm, IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.əm/

Noun

malum (plural malums)

1. (formal) An evil or wrongdoing.

References

• malum at OneLook Dictionary Search
• malum in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

Anagrams

• Mulam

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Latin

Etymology 1

From malus (“evil, wicked”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈma.lˠʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈmaː.lum]

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Adjective

malum

1. inflection of malus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Noun

malum n (genitive malī); second declension

1. an evil, misfortune, calamity
2. harm, injury

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	malum	mala
Genitive	malī	malōrum
Dative	malō	malīs
Accusative	malum	mala
Ablative	malō	malīs
Vocative	malum	mala

Descendants

• French: mal

Interjection

malum

1. damn!, fuck!, alas!, misery!
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 2.3.389.390:

     Erotium: Certo, tibi et parasito tuo.
     Sosicles: Quoi, malum, parasito? Certo haec mulier non sana est satis.

     Certainly you did, for yourself and your parasite."
     "For whom? Fuck, parasite? Surely this woman isn't quite right in her senses.

Related terms

• malē
• malus

Etymology 2

māla rubra (red apples)

Borrowed from Doric Greek μᾶλον (mâlon, “apple”) as variant of μῆλον (mêlon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.lum/, [ˈmaː.lˠʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈmaː.lum]

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Noun

mālum n (genitive mālī); second declension

1. apple (fruit)
2. the plant Aristolochia

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mālum	māla
Genitive	mālī	mālōrum
Dative	mālō	mālīs
Accusative	mālum	māla
Ablative	mālō	mālīs
Vocative	mālum	māla

Derived terms

• mālum discordiae
• mālum pūnicum

Related terms

• mālus

Descendants

• Aromanian: mer, meru
• Friulian: mêl, miluç
• Italian: mela

• Neapolitan: mìlo, méla
• Romanian: măr
• Romansch: mail
• Spanish: mela

References

• malum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• malum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri
    
  • (ambiguous) to deserve ill of a person; to treat badly: male mereri de aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bene, male audire (ab aliquo)
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to inculcate good (bad) principles: bene (male) praecipere alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • (ambiguous) my mind forebodes misfortune: animus praesāgit malum
    
  • (ambiguous) my mind forebodes misfortune: animo praesagio malum
    
  • (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti
    
  • (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: animus male sibi conscius
    
  • (ambiguous) to be tormented by remorse: conscientia mala angi, excruciari
    
  • (ambiguous) a moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) moratus
    
  • (ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
    
  • (ambiguous) to manage one's affairs, household, property well or ill: rem bene (male) gerere (vid. sect. XVI. 10a)
    
  • (ambiguous) from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
    
  • (ambiguous) to buy dearly: magno or male emere
    
  • (ambiguous) to win, lose a fight (of the commander): rem (bene, male) gerere (vid. sect. XII. 2, note rem gerere...)
    
  • (ambiguous) I am sorry to hear..: male (opp. bene) narras (de)