malevolus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From male (“badly”) +‎ -volus (“willing”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

malevolus (feminine malevola, neuter malevolum, comparative malevolentior, superlative malevolentissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. disaffected, envious, spiteful, malevolent

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative malevolus malevola malevolum malevolī malevolae malevola
genitive malevolī malevolae malevolī malevolōrum malevolārum malevolōrum
dative malevolō malevolae malevolō malevolīs
accusative malevolum malevolam malevolum malevolōs malevolās malevola
ablative malevolō malevolā malevolō malevolīs
vocative malevole malevola malevolum malevolī malevolae malevola

Descendants

References

  • “malevolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “malevolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "malevolus", 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)
  • malevolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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