malignus

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Latin

Etymology

Formed as an antonym of benignus (kind, generous),[1] from male (badly) +‎ -gnus (-born).

Pronunciation

Adjective

malignus (feminine maligna, neuter malignum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. wicked, malicious, stingy
  2. spiteful
  3. malignant, malign

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Antonyms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gignō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 261

Further reading

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