malignus

Latin

Etymology

Formed as an antonym of benignus (kind, generous),[1] from male (badly) + -gnus (-born)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -gnus#MALIGNUS.

Pronunciation

Adjective

malignus (feminine maligna, neuter malignum)Category:Latin lemmas#MALIGNUSCategory:Latin adjectives#MALIGNUSCategory:Latin first and second declension adjectives#MALIGNUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#MALIGNUSCategory:Pages with entries#MALIGNUSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#MALIGNUS; first/second-declension adjective

  1. wicked, malicious, stingy
  2. spiteful
  3. malignant, malign

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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Descendants

References

  1. 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

  • 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, 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.
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