malevolus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From male (“badly”) + -volus (“willing”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maˈle.u̯o.lus/, [mäˈɫ̪eu̯ɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈle.vo.lus/, [mäˈlɛːvolus]
Adjective edit
malevolus (feminine malevola, neuter malevolum, comparative malevolentior, superlative malevolentissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | malevolus | malevola | malevolum | malevolī | malevolae | malevola | |
| Genitive | malevolī | malevolae | malevolī | malevolōrum | malevolārum | malevolōrum | |
| Dative | malevolō | malevolō | malevolīs | ||||
| Accusative | malevolum | malevolam | malevolum | malevolōs | malevolās | malevola | |
| Ablative | malevolō | malevolā | malevolō | malevolīs | |||
| Vocative | malevole | malevola | malevolum | malevolī | malevolae | malevola | |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “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.