malo
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Shortening.
NounEdit
malo (uncountable)
- (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.
- 2009, Joseph LaVilla, The Wine, Beer, and Spirits Handbook
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
malo (plural malos)
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NounEdit
malo (accusative singular malon, plural maloj, accusative plural malojn)
GalicianEdit
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EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
malo m (feminine singular mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)
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ItalianEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
malo (feminine singular mala, masculine plural mali, feminine plural male)
- (archaic) bad, evil, wicked
- (archaic) unfit, incompetent, inadequate
Usage notesEdit
In modern usage displaced by cattivo, but still used in some set phrases.
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LatinEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inflected form of malus (“bad, evil”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
malō
- masculine dative singular of malus
- masculine ablative singular of malus
- neuter dative singular of malus
- neuter ablative singular of malus
Etymology 2Edit
Inflected form of mālus (“apple tree”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mālō
Etymology 3Edit
From magis + volō ("I more greatly wish for").
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
mālō (present infinitive mālle, perfect active māluī); irregular conjugation, no passive
InflectionEdit
| Conjugation of malo (irregular, no imperatives) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | māluerimus | mālueritis | māluerint | |
| pluperfect | māluissem | māluissēs | māluisset | māluissēmus | māluissētis | māluissent | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | mālle | māluisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
ReferencesEdit
- 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, 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
- (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
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mȁlo (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ло) (+ genitive case)
- little, few, some
- slightly, somewhat, vaguely (to a small but perceptible degree)
- barely, hardly (anyone, anywhere)