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malo

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English

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Etymology 1

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Shortening of malolactic.

Noun

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malo (uncountable)

  1. (informal) malolactic fermentation
    • 2009, Joseph LaVilla, The Wine, Beer, and Spirits Handbook:
      Allowing a wine to undergo malo also protects it from bacterial contamination later.

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Noun

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malo (plural malos)

  1. A Hawaiian loincloth.

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Asturian

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Adjective

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malo

  1. neuter of malu

Bariai

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malo

  1. cloth

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Cebuano

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ma‧lo

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malo

  1. (botany) the stamen

Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish malo (“bad”).

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malo

  1. bad; evil

Chichewa

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Noun

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maló class 6

  1. place

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Dyula

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malo

  1. (uncooked) rice
  2. (botany) rice plant, Oryza sativa

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From mal- +‎ -o.

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  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈmalo/
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Hyphenation: mal‧o

Noun

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malo (accusative singular malon, plural maloj, accusative plural malojn)

  1. opposite

Galician

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Alternative forms

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  • mal (masculine singular, before the noun)
  • mao

Etymology

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From Latin malus.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmalo/ [ˈma.lʊ]
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Hyphenation: ma‧lo

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malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)

  1. bad
    Antonym: bo
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Gothic

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Romanization

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malō

  1. romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin malus.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈma.lo/
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Hyphenation: mà‧lo

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malo (feminine mala, masculine plural mali, feminine plural male)

  1. (archaic) bad, evil, wicked
    Synonym: cattivo
    Antonym: buono
  2. (archaic) unfit, incompetent, inadequate

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  • In modern usage displaced by cattivo, but still used in some set phrases.

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Ladino

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Etymology

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From Old Spanish malo (“bad”).

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malo

  1. bad
    Synonym: negro

Latin

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Etymology 1

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From magis +‎ volō, literally "I more greatly wish for".

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mālō (present infinitive mālle, perfect active māluī); irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no imperative, no gerund

  1. to prefer, want more or instead; to wish rather, choose rather
    Synonyms: antevertō, anteferō, praeoptō, praepōnō, praeferō
    • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 428–430:
      BYRRHIA: Ego illam vīdī: virginem fōrma bona, / meminī vidērī. Quō aequior sum Pamphilō, / sī sē illam in somnīs quam illum amplectī māluit.
      BYRRHIA: I saw her: [she was] a good-looking girl, as I recall. That’s why I’m more partial to Pamphilus, if he himself prefers [to be the one who] holds her in his sleep instead of that [other man].
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   Conjugation of mālō (irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no imperative, no gerund)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present mālō māvīs māvult mālumus māvultis mālunt
imperfect mālēbam mālēbās mālēbat mālēbāmus mālēbātis mālēbant
future mālam mālēs mālet mālēmus mālētis mālent
perfect māluī māluistī māluit māluimus māluistis māluērunt,
māluēre
pluperfect mālueram māluerās māluerat māluerāmus māluerātis māluerant
future perfect māluerō mālueris māluerit māluerimus mālueritis māluerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present mālim mālīs mālit mālīmus mālītis mālint
imperfect māllem māllēs māllet māllēmus māllētis māllent
perfect māluerim māluerīs māluerit māluerīmus māluerītis māluerint
pluperfect māluissem māluissēs māluisset māluissēmus māluissētis māluissent
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present mālle — mālēns —
perfect māluisse — — —
Descendants
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  • >? Old French: maloir

Etymology 2

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Inflected form of malus (“bad, evil”).

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malō

  1. masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of malus

Etymology 3

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Inflected form of mālus (“apple tree”).

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Noun

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mālō

  1. dative/ablative singular of mālus

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  • “malo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “malo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "malo", 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)
  • malo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
    • (ambiguous) to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri
    • (ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    • (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid

Middle English

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Noun

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malo

  1. alternative form of malwe

Nafaanra

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Etymology

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From areal word. Compare Dyula malo, Ewe mɔlu, Wolof malo.

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malo

  1. rice

Samoan

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malo

  1. government

Serbo-Croatian

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  • IPA(key): /mâlo/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧lo

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mȁlo (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ло) (+ genitive case)

  1. little, few, some
  2. slightly, somewhat, vaguely (to a small but perceptible degree)
  3. barely, hardly (anyone, anywhere)

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malo

  1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mal

Slovak

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Participle

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malo

  1. neuter singular l-participle of mať

Slovene

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /màːlɔ/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧lo

Adverb

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málo (comparative mȁnj, superlative nȁjmȁnj)

  1. (countable) few
  2. (uncountable) little
  3. a little
  4. hardly (anyone, anywhere)
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  • “malo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “malo”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin malus. Cognate with Ladino malo, Italian malo, Galician mao, Portuguese mau.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmalo/ [ˈma.lo]
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  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Syllabification: ma‧lo

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malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas, superlative malísimo or pésimo)

  1. bad
    Antonym: bueno
  2. evil, mean
    Antonym: bueno
  3. sick
    Antonyms: aliviado, mejorado

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Noun

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malo m (plural malos, feminine mala, feminine plural malas)

  1. bad guy; baddie; bad boy; bad person

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Ternate

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Verb

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malo

  1. (impersonal) to not exist
    bira malo ― there is no rice/rice does not exist
    ngogu malo toma hito ― there is no food in the kitchen
  2. (impersonal) to not have
    ngori pipi malo ― I have no money (literally, “there is no money of mine”)
  3. (intransitive) to not exist
    nyao imalo toma hito ― there is no fish in the kitchen
    mina momalo toma fala ― she is not at home

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This word negates the verb of existence sema. In impersonal usage (unlike sema), malo generally follows the object of the sentence; in intransitive usage, malo follows the subject and precedes the object. To negate the transitive usage of sema, the impersonal form of malo is used.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of malo
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tomalo fomalo mimalo
2nd person nomalo nimalo
3rd
person 		masculine omalo imalo
yomalo (archaic)
feminine momalo
neuter imalo

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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Numeral

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malo

  1. eight

Wolio

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm (“night, darkness”), most likely via borrowing from a Bungku–Tolaki language.

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malo

  1. night

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  • Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris
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