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damn!,fuck!,alas!,misery!
- c. 200BCE,Plautus,Menaechmi2.3.389.390:
  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?Fuck, parasite? Surely this woman isn't quite right in her senses.

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Etymology 2

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Perhaps borrowed fromDoric Greekμᾶλον(mâlon,“apple”). Alternatively but less likely fromProto-Indo-European*méh₂lom. The Proto-Indo-European form regularly gives bothmālum in Latin andμῆλον in Ancient Greek, but such reconstruction is dubious due to the fact that it is only found in some Indo-European languages. It is more likely that the Greek word was borrowed from a pre-Indo-European substratum and later borrowed into Latin. Seeμῆλον for more details.

Alternative forms

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mēlum(Late Latin)

Pronunciation

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(Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.lum/,[ˈmäːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈma.lum/,[ˈmäːlum]

Noun

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mālum n (genitivemālī);second declension

apple (fruit)
any tree fruit with a fleshy exterior, e.g.quinces,pears,peaches, etc.
the plantAristolochia

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mālum	māla
genitive	mālī	mālōrum
dative	mālō	mālīs
accusative	mālum	māla
ablative	mālō	mālīs
vocative	mālum	māla

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Aromanian:mer,meru
Friulian:mêl,miluç
Italian:mela,⇒maliforme
Neapolitan:mìlo,méla
Romanian:măr
Romansch:mail
Spanish:mela

References

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“malum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“malum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
malum in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
"malum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
malum inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 orpeccatorum, 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) oromnia 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 ormale emere
- (ambiguous) to win, lose a fight (of the commander):rem (bene, male) gerere (vid. sect. XII. 2, noterem gerere...)
- (ambiguous) I am sorry to hear..:male (opp.bene)narras (de)

Turkish

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Etymology

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FromOttoman Turkishمعلوم(ma'lum), fromArabicمَعْلُوم(maʕlūm).

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /maː.ˈlum/
Hyphenation:ma‧lum

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