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Latin
Etymology
From Old Italian malato, from Latin male habitus (“ill, having a disease”).
Adjective
malatus (feminine malata, neuter malatum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Medieval Latin) ill, sick
14th century, Anonymous (attr. to Petrus, friend of Torello),
Vita Beati Torelli Puppiensis 24, (Life of Torello of Poppi the hermit (1202-1282), as cited in Du Cange (ed. L. Favre, 1883-7), "malatus"):
- qui erat in lecto gravi febre malatus
- who was in bed, ill with a serious fever