malignus
Latin
editEtymology
editFormed as an antonym of benignus (“kind, generous”),[1] from male (“badly”) + -gnus (“-born”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /maˈliɡ.nus/, [mäˈlʲɪŋnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈliɲ.ɲus/, [mäˈliɲːus]
Adjective
editmalignus (feminine maligna, neuter malignum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | malignus | maligna | malignum | malignī | malignae | maligna | |
| Genitive | malignī | malignae | malignī | malignōrum | malignārum | malignōrum | |
| Dative | malignō | malignō | malignīs | ||||
| Accusative | malignum | malignam | malignum | malignōs | malignās | maligna | |
| Ablative | malignō | malignā | malignō | malignīs | |||
| Vocative | maligne | maligna | malignum | malignī | malignae | maligna | |
Antonyms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ 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
edit- “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.