malignus
Latin
Etymology
Formed as an antonym of benignus (“kind, generous”),[1] from male (“badly”) + -gnus (“-born”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [maˈlɪŋ.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [maˈliɲ.ɲus]
Adjective
malignus (feminine maligna, neuter malignum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | malignus | maligna | malignum | malignī | malignae | maligna | |
| genitive | malignī | malignae | malignī | malignōrum | malignārum | malignōrum | |
| dative | malignō | malignae | malignō | malignīs | |||
| accusative | malignum | malignam | malignum | malignōs | malignās | maligna | |
| ablative | malignō | malignā | malignō | malignīs | |||
| vocative | maligne | maligna | malignum | malignī | malignae | maligna | |
Antonyms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gignō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 261
Further reading
- “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.