English

Noun

malo ‎(uncountable)

1. (informal) malolactic fermentation
   • 2009, Joseph LaVilla, The Wine, Beer, and Spirits Handbook

     Allowing a wine to undergo malo also protects it from bacterial contamination later.

Etymology 2

Noun

malo ‎(plural malos)

1. A Hawaiian loincloth.

Esperanto

Etymology

mal- +‎ -o

Noun

malo ‎(accusative singular malon, plural maloj, accusative plural malojn)

1. opposite

Galician

Alternative forms

• mal (masculine singular, before the noun)
• mao

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Adjective

malo m (feminine singular mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)

1. bad

Antonyms

• bo

Related terms

• mal

Gothic

Romanization

malō

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉

Italian

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalo/, [ˈmaː.l̺o]
• Hyphenation: mà‧lo

Adjective

malo m ‎(feminine singular mala, masculine plural mali, feminine plural male)

1. (archaic) bad, evil, wicked
2. (archaic) unfit, incompetent, inadequate

Synonyms

• (bad, wicked): cattivo

Related terms

• male

Anagrams

• almo
• mola

Latin

Etymology 1

Inflected form of malus ‎(“bad, evil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.loː/

Adjective

malō

1. masculine dative singular of malus
2. masculine ablative singular of malus
3. neuter dative singular of malus
4. neuter ablative singular of malus

Etymology 2

Inflected form of mālus ‎(“apple tree”).

Noun

mālō

1. dative singular of mālus
2. ablative singular of mālus

Etymology 3

From magis volō ‎(“I wish for more”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.loː/

Verb

mālō ‎(present infinitive mālle, perfect active māluī); irregular conjugation, no passive

1. I prefer, want more or instead.

Inflection

References

• malo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MALO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “malo”, 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) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
    

Samoan

Noun

malo

1. government

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâlo/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

Adverb

mȁlo ‎(Cyrillic spelling ма̏ло)

1. a little, few, some
2. hardly (anyone, anywhere)

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâlo/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

Adverb

mâlo ‎(comparative mânj, superlative nàjmânj)

1. (countable) few
2. (uncountable) little
3. a little
4. hardly (anyone, anywhere)

Related terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmälo̞], /ˈmalo/

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Adjective

malo m ‎(feminine singular mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)

1. bad
2. evil
3. sick

Antonyms

• (bad, evil): bueno
• (sick): aliviado, mejorado

Related terms

• mal
• (comparatives): peor
• (superlatives): malísimo, pésimo