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Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin maledicus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈlɛ.di.ko/
- Rhymes: -ɛdiko
- Hyphenation: ma‧lè‧di‧co
Adjective
maledico (feminine maledica, masculine plural maledici, feminine plural malediche)
- (literary) slanderous
- Synonyms: calunniatore, diffamatore, maldicente
Derived terms
Noun
maledico m (plural maledici, feminine maledica)
- slanderer
- Synonyms: malalingua, maldicente
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.leˈdi.ko/
- Rhymes: -iko
- Hyphenation: ma‧le‧dì‧co
Verb
maledico
- first-person singular present indicative of maledire
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From male (“wickedly, badly”) + dīcō (“say, speak”).
Pronunciation
Verb
maledīcō (present infinitive maledīcere, perfect active maledīxī, supine maledictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- to slander, speak ill of
- to curse
- Synonyms: īnsultō, exsecror, obloquor, compello, pulsō, intrahō, invehō, incessō
- Antonym: benedīcō
Conjugation
1Archaic.
Derived terms
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Descendants
References
- “maledico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maledico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers