malum
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: mälʹəm, IPA(key): /ˈmæl.əm/
Latin
Etymology 1
From malus (“evil, wicked”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈma.ɫũ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈmaː.lum]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Adjective
malum
- inflection of malus:
- nominative, accusative, and vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Inflection
Second declension.
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
Etymology 2

mālum (an apple)
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “tree, fruit”), specifically Doric, Aeolic Greek μᾶλον (mâlon).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.lum/, [ˈmaː.ɫũ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈmaː.lum]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Inflection
Second declension.
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
Related terms
Descendants
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, 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
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