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malusnormalized · malus3 analyses · 3 lemmas
Lemma 1malus
adjective
bad, evil, wicked; ugly; unlucky
Morphology1 analysis
masculine nominative singularmal + us · regular
Lewis & Short
mălus, a, um, [ mala, dirt; , black; macula; mal in Mutter-mal, ]
: pējor, pejus. — : pessimus, a, um, bad, in the widest sense of the word ( bonus), evil, wicked, injurious, destructive, mischievous, hurtful; of personal appearance, ill-looking, ugly, deformed; of weight, bad, light; of fate, evil, unlucky, : carmen, an incantation, Leg. XII. Tab. ; aetas, burdensome, senectus. — Of the sick — In neutr. , as. — : pejor, worse. — Hence.
mă-lum, i, , any thing bad, an evil, mischief, misfortune, calamity,
Punishment; hurt, harm, severity, injury; malo hercle magno suo convivat sine modo, to his own hurt, Enn. (Sat. 1 Vahl.).
Wrong-doing.
As a term of abuse, plague, mischief, torment.
As an exclamation, alas! misery!; Brix ad loc.
măle, , badly, ill, wrongly, wickedly, unfortunately, erroneously, improperly, : dubitas, quin lubenter tuo ero meus, quod possiet facere, faciat male? will do all the harm to him, : si iste Italiam relinquet, faciet omnino male, et, ut ego existimo, will act altogether unwisely, Attic. : L. Antonio male sit, si quidem, , evil betide him! (a formula of imprecation): non dubito, quin me male oderit, very much, intensely, Caes. —
mālus, i,
an appletree.
mālus, i, [by some referred to root mac-; ; magnus; but perh. the same word with 2. malus]
an upright mast, pole, or beam.
A mast of a ship.
A standard or pole, to which the awnings spread over the theatre were attached.
The beam in the middle of a wine-press.
The corner beams of a tower.
Lemma 2malus
nounfeminine
an appletree · bad, evil, wicked; ugly; unlucky
Morphology1 analysis
nominative singularmal + us · regular
Lewis & Short
mălus, a, um, [ mala, dirt; , black; macula; mal in Mutter-mal, ]
: pējor, pejus. — : pessimus, a, um, bad, in the widest sense of the word ( bonus), evil, wicked, injurious, destructive, mischievous, hurtful; of personal appearance, ill-looking, ugly, deformed; of weight, bad, light; of fate, evil, unlucky, : carmen, an incantation, Leg. XII. Tab. ; aetas, burdensome, senectus. — Of the sick — In neutr. , as. — : pejor, worse. — Hence.
mă-lum, i, , any thing bad, an evil, mischief, misfortune, calamity,
Punishment; hurt, harm, severity, injury; malo hercle magno suo convivat sine modo, to his own hurt, Enn. (Sat. 1 Vahl.).
Wrong-doing.
As a term of abuse, plague, mischief, torment.
As an exclamation, alas! misery!; Brix ad loc.
măle, , badly, ill, wrongly, wickedly, unfortunately, erroneously, improperly, : dubitas, quin lubenter tuo ero meus, quod possiet facere, faciat male? will do all the harm to him, : si iste Italiam relinquet, faciet omnino male, et, ut ego existimo, will act altogether unwisely, Attic. : L. Antonio male sit, si quidem, , evil betide him! (a formula of imprecation): non dubito, quin me male oderit, very much, intensely, Caes. —
mālus, i,
an appletree.
mālus, i, [by some referred to root mac-; ; magnus; but perh. the same word with 2. malus]
an upright mast, pole, or beam.
A mast of a ship.
A standard or pole, to which the awnings spread over the theatre were attached.
The beam in the middle of a wine-press.
The corner beams of a tower.
Lemma 3malus
nounmasculine
an upright mast, pole, beam · bad, evil, wicked; ugly; unlucky
Morphology1 analysis
nominative singularmal + us · regular
Lewis & Short
mălus, a, um, [ mala, dirt; , black; macula; mal in Mutter-mal, ]
: pējor, pejus. — : pessimus, a, um, bad, in the widest sense of the word ( bonus), evil, wicked, injurious, destructive, mischievous, hurtful; of personal appearance, ill-looking, ugly, deformed; of weight, bad, light; of fate, evil, unlucky, : carmen, an incantation, Leg. XII. Tab. ; aetas, burdensome, senectus. — Of the sick — In neutr. , as. — : pejor, worse. — Hence.
mă-lum, i, , any thing bad, an evil, mischief, misfortune, calamity,
Punishment; hurt, harm, severity, injury; malo hercle magno suo convivat sine modo, to his own hurt, Enn. (Sat. 1 Vahl.).
Wrong-doing.
As a term of abuse, plague, mischief, torment.
As an exclamation, alas! misery!; Brix ad loc.
măle, , badly, ill, wrongly, wickedly, unfortunately, erroneously, improperly, : dubitas, quin lubenter tuo ero meus, quod possiet facere, faciat male? will do all the harm to him, : si iste Italiam relinquet, faciet omnino male, et, ut ego existimo, will act altogether unwisely, Attic. : L. Antonio male sit, si quidem, , evil betide him! (a formula of imprecation): non dubito, quin me male oderit, very much, intensely, Caes. —
mālus, i,
an appletree.
mālus, i, [by some referred to root mac-; ; magnus; but perh. the same word with 2. malus]
an upright mast, pole, or beam.
A mast of a ship.
A standard or pole, to which the awnings spread over the theatre were attached.
The beam in the middle of a wine-press.
The corner beams of a tower.
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