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Esperanto
Etymology
From mal- + alta + -iĝi.
Pronunciation
Verb
malaltiĝi (present malaltiĝas, past malaltiĝis, future malaltiĝos, conditional malaltiĝus, volitive malaltiĝu)
- (intransitive) to get lower, fall, sink, drop (in height or altitude)
- Willy van Zoest (translator), Blua Sango by Willy Wood, Chapter 11,
- La vojo altiĝis, malaltiĝis kaj kurbiĝis, kondukis rekte tra densaj arbaroj
- The route went up and down (lit. and went down), twisted and turned, led straight through dense forests
- (intransitive) to get lower, fall (in pitch or volume)
- Lia voĉo malaltiĝis. ― His voice has got lower.
- (intransitive) to fall, drop (in value or quantity)
- Vladimír Váňa (translator), Aventuroj de la Brava Soldato Švejk dum la Mondmilito (The Good Soldier Švejk) by Jaroslav Hašek, Part 3, Chapter 3,
- armea ordono, laǔ kiu porcio da vino por oficiroj malaltiĝas je unu okono de litro
- an army order reducing the ration of wine for each officer (lit. according to which the ration of wine for officers was reduced) by an eighth of a litre (Cecil Parrott translation, Heinemann, 1973)
- (intransitive) to sink, lower oneself (morally); to condescend
- 1893, Enbe (Nikolao Borovko), “Nokto” in L. L. Zamenhof (editor), Fundamenta Krestomatio de la Lingvo Esperanto,
la reĝo [...] malaltiĝas al ŝtelado- the king lowers himself to stealing
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