malum
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malum (plural malums)
- (formal) An evil or wrongdoing.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- malum at OneLook Dictionary Search
- malum in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Etymology 2[edit]
Related to Arabic مُعَلِّم (muʿallim, “teacher”).
Noun[edit]
malum (plural malums)
- (India, nautical, historical) The mate serving on a ship with English officers and native crew.
References[edit]
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “malum”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From malus (“evil, wicked”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈmäɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈmäːlum]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Adjective[edit]
malum
- inflection of malus:
Noun[edit]
malum n (genitive malī); second declension
- an evil, misfortune, calamity
- punishment, harm, injury, torment, misery
- Synonyms: cruciātus, pūnītiō, mercēs, poena, supplicium, vindicātiō, vindicta, animadversus, exemplum, sānctiō, pretium, noxa
- disease, illness, infirmity
- Synonyms: aegritūdō, morbus, pestis, valētūdō, labor, infirmitas, incommodum
- Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō
- wrong-doing
- (in the plural) bad words
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
Interjection[edit]
malum
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Doric Greek μᾶλον (mâlon, “apple”).
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.lum/, [ˈmäːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈmäːlum]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun[edit]
mālum n (genitive mālī); second declension
- apple (fruit)
- the plant Aristolochia
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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 Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- malum 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)
- 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)
- (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish معلوم (ma'lum), from Arabic مَعْلُوم (maʿlūm).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
malum
Related terms[edit]
Adverb[edit]
malum
Noun[edit]
malum (definite accusative malumu, plural malumlar)
Antonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “malum”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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