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FromLatinmalacia, fromAncient Greekμαλακία(malakía,“softness, sickness”).

malacia (countable anduncountable,pluralmalacias)

1. (medicine, pathology) Abnormalsoftening oforgans ortissues of the human body.[from 19th c.]
   • 1860,Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow,Cellular Pathology as Based Upon Physiological and Pathological Histology, page318:

     As soon, namely, as a process of this sort sets in in a compound organ, as for example, a muscle, a palpable myo-malacia is certainly produced when all the muscular elements at a given point are at once affected; but it happens far more frequently that, in the course of a muscle, only a comparatively small number of primitive fasciculi are affected, whilst the others remain almost intact.

2. (medicine, obsolete) An abnormalcraving for certain types of food.[from 17th c.]
   • 1916,A. J. Carlson,The Control of hunger in health and disease, page267:

     The least abnormal condition appears to be themalacia, or desire for highly spiced or acid foods that are sometimes seen in chlorotic girls and in pregnant women.

• “malacia”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

• Calamia

FromLatinmalacia, fromAncient Greekμαλακία(malakía,“softness, sickness”).

• IPA^(key): /ma.laˈt͡ʃi.a/
• Rhymes:-ia
• Hyphenation:ma‧la‧cì‧a

malacia f (pluralmalacie)

1. (pathology)malacia

• osteomalacia

• Calamai,Calamia,calamai,lamaica

FromAncient Greekμαλακία(malakía,“softness”), fromμᾰλᾰκός(mălăkós,“soft”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /maˈla.ki.a/,[mäˈɫ̪äkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /maˈla.t͡ʃi.a/,[mäˈläːt͡ʃiä]

malacia f (genitivemalaciae);first declension

1. acalm at sea,dead calm
   • c. 52BCE,Julius Caesar,Commentarii de Bello Gallico3.15:

     Ac iam conversis in eam partem navibus quo ventus ferebat, tanta subitomalacia ac tranquillitas exstitit ut se ex loco movere non possent.

     And they had headed all their vessels down the wind, when suddenly acalm so complete and absolute came on that they could not stir from the spot.

   • c. 65CE,Seneca the Younger,Epistulae morales ad Lucilium67.14–15:

     Nihil habere, ad quod exciteris, ad quod te concites, cuius denuntiatione et incursu firmitatem animi tui temptes, sed in otio inconcusso iacere non est tranquillitas;malacia est.

     If you have nothing to stir you up and rouse you to action, nothing which will test your resolution by its threats and hostilities; if you recline in unshaken comfort, it is not tranquillity; it is merely aflat calm.

2. (medicine) loss ofappetite,nausea

First-declension noun.

• “malacia”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “malacia”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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