malitia

Latin

Etymology

From malus (“bad, evil”) +‎ -itia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maˈli.ti.a/, [mäˈlʲɪt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈlit.t͡si.a/, [mäˈlit̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

malitia f (genitive malitiae); first declension

1. a bad quality; badness, wickedness
2. spite, malice, ill will; an act of malice
3. cunning, artfulness

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	malitia	malitiae
genitive	malitiae	malitiārum
dative	malitiae	malitiīs
accusative	malitiam	malitiās
ablative	malitiā	malitiīs
vocative	malitia	malitiae

Derived terms

• malitiōsus

Related terms

• malitās
• malitiōsē
• malitiōsitās

Descendants

• Catalan: malesa, → malícia
• Old French: malice
  • → English: malice
  • French: malice
• → Galician: malicia
• → Italian: malizia
• Piedmontese: malissia
• Portuguese: maeza, maleza, → malícia
• → Romanian: maliție
• → Sicilian: malizzia
• Spanish: maleza (“weed, underbrush”), → malicia (“malice”)

References

• “malitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “malitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malitia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• malitia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.