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Latin
Etymology
From male (“badly”) + -volus (“willing”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
malevolus (feminine malevola, neuter malevolum, comparative malevolentior, superlative malevolentissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- disaffected, envious, spiteful, malevolent
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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.