maligne

English

Adjective

maligne (comparative more maligne, superlative most maligne)

1. Obsolete spelling of malign.
   • 1543 January, The Chronicle of Jhon Hardyng in Metre, frõ the First Begynnyng of Englãde, vnto yͤ Reigne of Edwarde yͤ Fourth Where He Made an End of His Chronicle. […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni, folio L.xvi., verso:

     He was a kyng, full worthy and condigne / That let not, for his eaſe nor his laboure / To ſearche and ſee defautes, that were maligne / And theim correcte, he was a gouernoure / God ſet neuer kyng, to be a ryotoure / To trippe on tapettes, and lyue in ydelneſſe / But for to rule, with all kyndes of buſyneſſe

   • 1549 August 23, Henry Bullynger [i.e., Heinrich Bullinger], translated by [unknown], A Treatise or Sermon of Henry Bullynger, Much Fruitfull and Necessarye for This Tyme, Concernynge Magistrates and Obedience of Subiectes. […], London: […] [W. Powell?] for Gwalter Lynne […]:

     As who ſhuld ſay for ſuch maner of perſõs as do maligne ⁊ diſquiet honeſt ⁊ quiet mẽ which wold faine liue in reſt ⁊ cannot.

   • 1613, William Browne, “The First Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The First Booke, London: […] Iohn Haviland, published 1625, →OCLC, page 20:

     Quoth th'other, haue thy ſtarres maligne been ſuch, / That their predominations ſvvay ſo much / Ouer the reſt, that vvith a milde aſpect / The Liues and loues of Shepherds doe affect?

Verb

maligne (third-person singular simple present malignes, present participle maligning, simple past and past participle maligned)

1. Obsolete spelling of malign.
   • 1548, […] [T]he Egloges of Alexander Barclay, Priest, Whereof the First Thre Conteineth the Miseries of Courters and Courtes, of All Princes in Generall. […], London: […] Humfrey Powell:

     For if that I ſpake it, in ſome audience, / Some men wolde maligne, and take it for offence.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 455:

     But if the heauens did his dayes enuie, / And my ſhort blis maligne, yet mote they well / Thus much afford me, ere that he did die / That the dim eies of my deare Marinell / I mote haue cloſed, and him bed farewell, / Sith other offices for mother meet / They would not graunt.

   • 1607, William [Barlow], A Brand, Titio Erepta. […], London: […] Iohn Windet for Mathew Law:

     Now Indignation is a fire, ſaith the Prophet, it will vexe the partie whom it malignes, as fire vexeth the rawe fleſh in the roſting or boyling. Si aut fiſcellam iunco texerem, aut palmarũ folia complicarem, aut ſudore vultus panem comederem; were I a Basket-maker, or a garland winder, or of any baſe trade that ſhould make mee ſweat for the bread I eate, ſaith S. Hierom, Nemo me morderet, nemo inuideret, No man would maligne me, no man would traduce me; but now, that I giue my ſelfe to the ſtudie and interpretation of the Scriptures, I am a Diuine, a Writer, a Preacher, Me obeleſcis notant, I am ſcortcht coleblack with their obliſques, & obloquies.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin malignus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈliŋ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [maˈliŋ.ne]

Adjective

maligne (feminine maligna, masculine and feminine plural malignes)

1. malignant

   Antonym: benigne

Further reading

• “maligne” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “maligne”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “maligne” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “maligne” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

maligne (not comparable)

1. (medicine) malignant

   Synonym: kwaadaardig

   Antonym: benigne

Inflection

Inflection of maligne
uninflected	maligne
inflected	maligne
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		maligne
indefinite	m./f. sing.	maligne
	n. sing.	maligne
	plural	maligne
definite		maligne
partitive		malignes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.liɲ/

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• Rhymes: -iɲ

Adjective

maligne

1. feminine singular of malin

Interlingua

Adjective

maligne (comparative plus maligne, superlative le plus maligne)

1. malign

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈliɲ.ɲe/
• Rhymes: -iɲɲe
• Hyphenation: ma‧lì‧gne

Adjective

maligne

1. feminine plural of maligno

Anagrams

• legnami, magline

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈliɡ.ne/, [mäˈlʲɪŋnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈliɲ.ɲe/, [mäˈliɲːe]

Adjective

maligne

1. vocative masculine singular of malignus

References

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French maligne, from Latin malignus.

Alternative forms

• malign, malygne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈliːn(ə)/, /maˈli(n)ɡn(ə)/

Adjective

maligne

1. evil, malicious, malign
2. (pathology, astrology) harmful

Related terms

• malignen

Descendants

• English: malign
• Scots: maling (obsolete)

References

• “malīgne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

maligne

1. Alternative form of malignen

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

maligne

1. definite singular/plural of malign

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

maligne

1. definite singular/plural of malign