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Latin
Etymology
From malus (“bad, evil”) + -itia.
Pronunciation
Noun
malitia f (genitive malitiae); first declension
- a bad quality; badness, wickedness
- spite, malice, ill will; an act of malice
- cunning, artfulness
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “malitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “malitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- malitia 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)
- malitia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.