maledico
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
maledico (feminine maledica, masculine plural maledici, feminine plural malediche)
- (literary) slanderous
- Synonyms: calunniatore, diffamatore, maldicente
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
maledico m (plural maledici, feminine maledica)
- slanderer
- Synonyms: malalingua, maldicente
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
maledico
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From male (“wickedly, badly”) + dīcō (“say, speak”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ma.leˈdiː.koː/, [mäɫ̪ɛˈd̪iːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ma.leˈdi.ko/, [mäleˈd̪iːko]
Verb edit
maledīcō (present infinitive maledīcere, perfect active maledīxī, supine maledictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
Conjugation edit
1Archaic.
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Descendants edit
- Albanian: mallkoj
- Catalan: maleir
- English: maledict
- Old French: maldire, maudire, maleïr (Anglo-Norman and Picard), maleoir (rare)
- Friulian: maledî, maludî
- Galician: maldicir
- Italian: maledire
- Old Occitan: maladiser
- Piedmontese: maledì
- Portuguese: maldizer
- Sardinian: maledixi, maledíxiri, maleíchere, maleíghere, malaíghere
- Sicilian: malidiri, malidìciri
- Spanish: maldecir
- Welsh: melltith
References edit
- “maledico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maledico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers