English

Noun

malum ‎(plural malums)

1. an evil or wrongdoing.

Latin

Etymology 1

From malus ‎(“evil, wicked”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.lum/, [ˈma.lũ]

Adjective

malum

1. nominative neuter singular of malus
2. accusative masculine singular of malus
3. accusative neuter singular of malus
4. vocative neuter singular of malus

Noun

malum n ‎(genitive malī); second declension

1. an evil, misfortune, calamity
2. harm, injury

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• French: mal

Interjection

malum!

1. damn!, ****!, alas!, misery!
   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 2.3.389.390

     Erotium: Certo, tibi et parasito tuo.
     Sosicles: Quoi, malum, parasito? Certo haec mulier non sana est satis.

     Certainly you did, for yourself and your parasite."
     "For whom? ****, parasite? Surely this woman isn't quite right in her senses.

Related terms

• malē
• malus

Etymology 2

mālum (an apple)

From Ancient Greek μῆλον ‎(mêlon, “tree, fruit”), specifically μᾶλον ‎(mâlon) (Doric, Aeolic).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.lum/, [ˈmaː.lũ]

Noun

mālum n ‎(genitive mālī); second declension

1. apple (fruit)
2. the plant Aristolochia

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• mālum discordiae

Related terms

• mālus

Descendants

References

• malum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MALUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “malum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri
    
  • (ambiguous) to deserve ill of a person; to treat badly: male mereri de aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bene, male audire (ab aliquo)
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to inculcate good (bad) principles: bene (male) praecipere alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • (ambiguous) my mind forebodes misfortune: animus praesāgit malum
    
  • (ambiguous) my mind forebodes misfortune: animo praesagio malum
    
  • (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti
    
  • (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: animus male sibi conscius
    
  • (ambiguous) to be tormented by remorse: conscientia mala angi, excruciari
    
  • (ambiguous) a moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) moratus
    
  • (ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
    
  • (ambiguous) to manage one's affairs, household, property well or ill: rem bene (male) gerere (vid. sect. XVI. 10a)
    
  • (ambiguous) from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
    
  • (ambiguous) to buy dearly: magno or male emere
    
  • (ambiguous) to win, lose a fight (of the commander): rem (bene, male) gerere (vid. sect. XII. 2, note rem gerere...)
    
  • (ambiguous) I am sorry to hear..: male (opp. bene) narras (de)