maledico
Italian
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editmaledico (feminine maledica, masculine plural maledici, feminine plural malediche)
- (literary) slanderous
- Synonyms: calunniatore, diffamatore, maldicente
Derived terms
editNoun
editmaledico m (plural maledici, feminine maledica)
- slanderer
- Synonyms: malalingua, maldicente
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmaledico
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom male (“wickedly, badly”) + dīcō (“say, speak”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ma.leˈdiː.koː/, [mäɫ̪ɛˈd̪iːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ma.leˈdi.ko/, [mäleˈd̪iːko]
Verb
editmaledīcō (present infinitive maledīcere, perfect active maledīxī, supine maledictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
Conjugation
edit1Archaic.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Albanian: mallkoj
- Catalan: maleir
- English: maledict
- Old French: maldire, maudire, maleïr (Anglo-Norman and Picard), maleoir (rare)
- Friulian: maledî, maludî
- Galician: maldicir
- Italian: maledire
- Old Occitan: maladiser
- Piedmontese: maledì
- Portuguese: maldizer
- Sardinian: maledixi, maledíxiri, maleíchere, maleíghere, malaíghere
- Sicilian: malidiri, malidìciri
- Spanish: maldecir
- Welsh: melltith
References
edit- “maledico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maledico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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