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From Latin malacia, from Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, softness, sickness).

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malacia (countable and uncountable, plural malacias)

  1. (medicine, pathology) Abnormal softening of organs or tissues of the human body. [from 19th c.]
    • 1860, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, Cellular Pathology as Based Upon Physiological and Pathological Histology, page 318:
      As soon, namely, as a process of this sort sets in in a compound organ, as for example, a muscle, a palpable myo-malacia is certainly produced when all the muscular elements at a given point are at once affected; but it happens far more frequently that, in the course of a muscle, only a comparatively small number of primitive fasciculi are affected, whilst the others remain almost intact.
  2. (medicine, obsolete) An abnormal craving for certain types of food. [from 17th c.]

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Etymology edit

From Latin malacia, from Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, softness, sickness).

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  • IPA(key): /ma.laˈt͡ʃi.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ma‧la‧cì‧a

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malacia f (plural malacie)

  1. (pathology) malacia

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, softness), from μᾰλᾰκός (malakós, soft).

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malacia f (genitive malaciae); first declension

  1. a calm at sea, dead calm
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 3.15:
      Ac iam conversis in eam partem navibus quo ventus ferebat, tanta subito malacia ac tranquillitas exstitit ut se ex loco movere non possent.
      And they had headed all their vessels down the wind, when suddenly a calm so complete and absolute came on that they could not stir from the spot.
    • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 67.14–15:
      Nihil habere, ad quod exciteris, ad quod te concites, cuius denuntiatione et incursu firmitatem animi tui temptes, sed in otio inconcusso iacere non est tranquillitas; malacia est.
      If you have nothing to stir you up and rouse you to action, nothing which will test your resolution by its threats and hostilities; if you recline in unshaken comfort, it is not tranquillity; it is merely a flat calm.
  2. (medicine) loss of appetite, nausea

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative malacia malaciae
Genitive malaciae malaciārum
Dative malaciae malaciīs
Accusative malaciam malaciās
Ablative malaciā malaciīs
Vocative malacia malaciae

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  • malacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • malacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers