malignus
Latin
Etymology
From malus (“bad”) + genus (“kind”) with subsequent syncope.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maˈliɡ.nus/, [mäˈlʲɪŋnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈliɲ.ɲus/, [mäˈliɲːus]
Adjective
malignus (feminine maligna, neuter malignum); first/second-declension adjective
- wicked, malicious, stingy
- spiteful
- malignant, malign
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | malignus | maligna | malignum | malignī | malignae | maligna | |
| Genitive | malignī | malignae | malignī | malignōrum | malignārum | malignōrum | |
| Dative | malignō | malignō | malignīs | ||||
| Accusative | malignum | malignam | malignum | malignōs | malignās | maligna | |
| Ablative | malignō | malignā | malignō | malignīs | |||
| Vocative | maligne | maligna | malignum | malignī | malignae | maligna | |
Antonyms
- benignus
Descendants
- Catalan: maligne
- English: malign
- French: malin
- Galician: maligno
- Italian: maligno
- Occitan: maligne
- Piedmontese: malegn, malign
- Portuguese: maligno
- Sicilian: malignu
- Spanish: maligno
- Welsh: malen
References
- “malignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “malignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- malignus 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)
- malignus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette