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Latin
Etymology
maleficus + -ium
Noun
maleficium n (genitive maleficiī or maleficī); second declension
- crime, misdeed, offence, evil deed, wrong, mischief
- Synonyms: peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, culpa, error, crīmen, facinus, iniūria, dēlictum, flāgitium, malum, dēlinquentia, commissum
- Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs
- injury, hurt
- Synonyms: damnum, incommoditās, dētrīmentum, calamitās, iniūria, vulnus, noxa, fraus, pauperiēs
- Antonyms: beneficium, favor
- fraud, deception
- Synonyms: dēceptiō, fraus, dolus, perfidia, stratēgēma, ars
- harmful sorcery, black magic (post-Augustinian)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “maleficium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maleficium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maleficium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- maleficium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to return evil for good: benefacta maleficiis pensare
- to return good for evil: maleficia benefactis remunerari
- to return good for evil: pro maleficiis beneficia reddere
- his guilty conscience gives him no rest: conscientiae maleficiorum stimulant aliquem