maleficus

Derived from male (“badly, wrongly”) +‎ -ficus (suffix denoting making or doing).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maˈɫɛ.fɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈlɛː.fi.kus]

maleficus m (genitive maleficī); second declension

1. doer of wrong, evildoer, criminal (person)
2. sorcerer, magician
   • (Can we date this quote?), S. Hieronymus, Commentarii [Commentaries]:

     Maleficos, quos vel veneficos possumus appellare, vel dæmonum phantasmatibus servientes."

     Sorcerors, whom we can call either wizards or [men] serving the phantasms of demons."

Second-declension noun.

• maleficō

maleficus (feminine malefica, neuter maleficum); first/second-declension adjective

1. wicked, vicious
2. criminal

First/second-declension adjective.

• malefaciō

• “maleficus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “maleficus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "maleficus", 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)
• maleficus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.