malalt
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Catalan malalte, variant of Old Catalan malaute, from Latin male + habitus, derived from male sē habēre (“to feel bad, be sick”).
The development -B'T- > -lt- occurred with [wt] as an intermediate, and can also be observed in colze, from Latin cubitum (“elbow”), and delme (“tithe”), from earlier *[ˈdɛdzemo] via a regular dz > w sound change, from Latin decimus (“tenth”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /məˈlalt/
- (Central) IPA(key): /məˈlal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /maˈlalt/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -alt
Adjective
malalt (feminine malalta, masculine plural malalts, feminine plural malaltes)
- sick, ill
Derived terms
- malaltia
Further reading
- “malalt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “malalt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “malalt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023