malo

Shortening of malolactic.

malo (uncountable)

1. (informal) malolactic fermentation
   • 2009, Joseph LaVilla, The Wine, Beer, and Spirits Handbook

     Allowing a wine to undergo malo also protects it from bacterial contamination later.

malo (plural malos)

1. A Hawaiian loincloth.

• AMLO, LMAO, lmao, loam, loma, mola

malo

1. cloth

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

• mawo

• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

malo

1. (botany) the stamen

From Spanish malo (“bad”).

malo

1. bad; evil

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɽó/

maló class 6

1. place

• m'malo mwa

From mal- +‎ -o.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmalo/
• Hyphenation: mal‧o
• Rhymes: -alo

malo (accusative singular malon, plural maloj, accusative plural malojn)

1. opposite

• mal (masculine singular, before the noun)
• mao

From Latin malus.

malo m (feminine singular mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)

1. bad

   Antonym: bo

• mal

malō

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉

From Latin malus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalo/, [ˈmaː.l̺o]
• Hyphenation: mà‧lo
• Rhymes: -alo

malo (feminine singular mala, masculine plural mali, feminine plural male)

1. (archaic) bad, evil, wicked

   Synonym: cattivo

   Antonym: buono

2. (archaic) unfit, incompetent, inadequate

In modern usage displaced by cattivo, but still used in some set phrases.

• malalingua

• almo, mola

Inflected form of malus (“bad, evil”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.loː/

malō

1. masculine dative singular of malus
2. masculine ablative singular of malus
3. neuter dative singular of malus
4. neuter ablative singular of malus

Inflected form of mālus (“apple tree”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.loː/, [ˈmaː.ɫoː]

mālō

1. dative singular of mālus
2. ablative singular of mālus

From magis + volō ("I more greatly wish for").

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.loː/

mālō (present infinitive mālle, perfect active māluī); irregular conjugation, no passive

1. I prefer, want more or instead

• malo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• malo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri
    
  • (ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
    

malo

1. government

• IPA^(key): /mâlo/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

mȁlo (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ло) (+ genitive case)

1. little, few, some
2. slightly, somewhat, vaguely (to a small but perceptible degree)
3. barely, hardly (anyone, anywhere)

• IPA^(key): /mâlo/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

mâlo (comparative mânj, superlative nàjmânj)

1. (countable) few
2. (uncountable) little
3. a little
4. hardly (anyone, anywhere)

From Latin malus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalo/

malo (feminine singular mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)

1. bad

   Antonym: bueno

2. evil

   Antonym: bueno

3. sick

   Antonyms: aliviado, mejorado

• Comparative: peor
• Superlatives: malísimo, pésimo