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Latin
Etymology
Formed as an antonym of benignus (“kind, generous”), from male (“badly”) + -gnus (“-born”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
malignus (feminine maligna, neuter malignum); first/second-declension adjective
- wicked, malicious, stingy
- spiteful
- malignant, malign
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Antonyms
Descendants
References
- ^ 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.