maledictio
Latin
Etymology
From maledīcō (“I speak ill of”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ma.ɫɛˈdɪk.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ma.leˈd̪ik.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
maledictiō f (genitive maledictiōnis); third declension
- curse, evil speech
- condemnation
- slander
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | maledictiō | maledictiōnēs |
| genitive | maledictiōnis | maledictiōnum |
| dative | maledictiōnī | maledictiōnibus |
| accusative | maledictiōnem | maledictiōnēs |
| ablative | maledictiōne | maledictiōnibus |
| vocative | maledictiō | maledictiōnēs |
Antonyms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Proto-Brythonic: *mėlldiθ
- Middle Cornish: mollath, molleth, molloth
- Middle Breton: malloez
- Breton: mallozh
- Gwenedeg Breton: malloh, malleh
- Breton: mallozh
- Welsh: melltith
- → Catalan: maledicció
- → English: malediction
- → Middle French: malédiction, maudition
- French: malédiction
- → Romanian: maledicție
- French: malédiction
- Old French: maleiçon, maleison
- → Old Irish: maldacht (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: maledizione
- → Piedmontese: maledission
- → Portuguese: maldição
- → Sicilian: malidizziuni
- → Spanish: maldición
References
- “maledictio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maledictio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maledictio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.