malevolus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From male (“badly”) + -volus (“willing”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [maˈɫɛ.wɔ.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [maˈlɛː.vo.lus]
Adjective
malevolus (feminine malevola, neuter malevolum, comparative malevolentior, superlative malevolentissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | malevolus | malevola | malevolum | malevolī | malevolae | malevola | |
| genitive | malevolī | malevolae | malevolī | malevolōrum | malevolārum | malevolōrum | |
| dative | malevolō | malevolae | malevolō | malevolīs | |||
| accusative | malevolum | malevolam | malevolum | malevolōs | malevolās | malevola | |
| ablative | malevolō | malevolā | malevolō | malevolīs | |||
| vocative | malevole | malevola | malevolum | malevolī | malevolae | malevola | |
Descendants
- Catalan: malèvol
- Galician: malévolo
- Italian: malevolo
- Portuguese: malévolo
- Sicilian: malèvulu
- Spanish: malévolo
References
- “malevolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “malevolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "malevolus", 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)
- malevolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.