malitia
Latin
Etymology
From malus (“bad, evil”) + -itia.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maˈli.ti.a/, [mäˈlʲɪt̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈlit.t͡si.a/, [mäˈlit̪ː͡s̪iä]
Noun
malitia f (genitive malitiae); first declension
- a bad quality; badness, wicked
- spite, malice, ill will; an act of malice
- cunning, artfulness
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | malitia | malitiae |
| Genitive | malitiae | malitiārum |
| Dative | malitiae | malitiīs |
| Accusative | malitiam | malitiās |
| Ablative | malitiā | malitiīs |
| Vocative | malitia | malitiae |
Derived terms
- malitiōsus
Related terms
- malitās
- malitiōsē
- malitiōsitās
Descendants
- Catalan: malesa, → malícia
- Old French: malice
- → English: malice
- French: malice
- Galician: malicia
- Italian: malizia
- Piedmontese: malissia
- Portuguese: malícia, maeza, maleza
- Romanian: maliție
- Spanish: maleza (“weed, underbrush”), malicia (“malice”)
References
- “malitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “malitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- malitia 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)
- malitia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette