maligne
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin malignus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /məˈliɡ.nə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /maˈliɡ.ne/
Adjective
maligne (feminine maligna, masculine and feminine plural malignes)
- malignant
- Antonym: benigne
Further reading
- “maligne” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “maligne”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “maligne” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “maligne” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
maligne (not comparable)
- (medicine) malignant
- Synonym: kwaadaardig
- Antonym: benigne
Inflection
| Inflection of maligne | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | maligne | |||
| inflected | maligne | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | maligne | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | maligne | ||
| n. sing. | maligne | |||
| plural | maligne | |||
| definite | maligne | |||
| partitive | malignes | |||
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.liɲ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iɲ
Adjective
maligne
- feminine singular of malin
Interlingua
Adjective
maligne (comparative plus maligne, superlative le plus maligne)
- malign
Italian
Adjective
maligne f pl
- feminine plural of maligno
Anagrams
- legnami, magline
Latin
Adjective
maligne
- vocative masculine singular of malignus
References
- “maligne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maligne”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maligne in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French maligne, from Latin malignus.
Alternative forms
- malign, malygne
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈliːn(ə)/, /maˈli(n)ɡn(ə)/
Adjective
maligne
- evil, malicious, malign
- (pathology, astrology) harmful
Related terms
- malignen
Descendants
- English: malign
- Scots: maling (obsolete)
References
- “malīgne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Verb
maligne
- Alternative form of malignen
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
maligne
- definite singular/plural of malign
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
maligne
- definite singular/plural of malign