malo
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Etymology 1
Shortening of malolactic.
Noun
malo (uncountable)
- (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)
See also
- malo animo (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams
Adjective
malo
Noun
malo
References
- Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ma‧lo
Noun
malo
Etymology
Adjective
malo
Pronunciation
Noun
maló class 6
Derived terms
Noun
malo
- (uncooked) rice
- (botany) rice plant, Oryza sativa
See also
- malobaga
- malobɔɔrɔ
- maloforo
- malogosilan
- malokala
- malokini
- malokisɛ
- malosɛnɛla
- kini
- ɲɛɲɛkini
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
malo (accusative singular malon, plural maloj, accusative plural malojn)
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)
Related terms
Romanization
malō
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
malo (feminine mala, masculine plural mali, feminine plural male)
- (archaic) bad, evil, wicked
- (archaic) unfit, incompetent, inadequate
Usage notes
- In modern usage displaced by cattivo, but still used in some set phrases.
Derived terms
Related terms
Anagrams
Etymology
From Old Spanish malo (“bad”).
Adjective
malo (Latin spelling)
Etymology 1
From magis + volō, literally "I more greatly wish for".
Alternative forms
- māvolō, magis volō, uncontracted form
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.loː/, [ˈmäːɫ̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmäːlo]
Verb
mālō (present infinitive mālle, perfect active māluī); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive, no imperative
Conjugation
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | mālō | māvīs | māvult | mālumus | māvultis | mālunt |
| imperfect | mālēbam | mālēbās | mālēbat | mālēbāmus | mālēbātis | mālēbant | |
| future | mālam | mālēs | mālet | mālēmus | mālētis | mālent | |
| perfect | māluī | māluistī | māluit | māluimus | māluistis | māluērunt, māluēre | |
| pluperfect | mālueram | māluerās | māluerat | māluerāmus | māluerātis | māluerant | |
| future perfect | māluerō | mālueris | māluerit | māluerimus | mālueritis | māluerint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | mālim | mālīs | mālit | mālīmus | mālītis | mālint |
| imperfect | māllem | māllēs | māllet | māllēmus | māllētis | māllent | |
| perfect | māluerim | māluerīs | māluerit | māluerīmus | māluerītis | māluerint | |
| pluperfect | māluissem | māluissēs | māluisset | māluissēmus | māluissētis | māluissent | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | mālle | māluisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | mālēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
Conjugation of mālō (irregular, suppletive in the second-person singular indicative present, active-only, no imperatives)
Descendants
- >? Old French: maloir
Etymology 2
Inflected form of malus (“bad, evil”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈma.loː/, [ˈmäɫ̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmäːlo]
Adjective
malō
Etymology 3
Inflected form of mālus (“apple tree”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.loː/, [ˈmäːɫ̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmäːlo]
Noun
mālō
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- malo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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
- (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
Noun
malo
- Alternative form of malwe
Etymology
Noun
malo
Noun
malo
Pronunciation
Adverb
mȁlo (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ло) (+ genitive case)
Adjective
malo
Pronunciation
Participle
malo
Pronunciation
Adverb
málo (comparative mȁnj, superlative nȁjmȁnj)
Related terms
- malobeseden
- malodušen
- malokdaj
- malokdo
Further reading
- “malo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “malo”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
Etymology
Inherited from Latin malus. Cognate with Ladino malo, Italian malo, Galician mao, Portuguese mau.
Pronunciation
Adjective
malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas, superlative malísimo or pésimo)
Declension
Derived terms
- a la mala
- a mala verdad
- a malas penas
- alfil malo
- andar en malos pasos
- bola mala
- culo de mal asiento
- dar mala espina
- dar un mal paso
- de mal abrigo
- de mal aire
- de mal arte
- de mal en peor
- de mal grado
- de mal tono
- de mal vivir
- de mala digestión
- de mala muerte
- de mala vida
- de malas
- en hora mala
- en mala hora
- lo malo es que
- mal genio
- mal humor
- mal trago
- mala acción
- mala conciencia
- mala fama
- mala fe
- mala gente
- mala hierba
- mala hostia
- mala idea
- mala leche
- mala mujer
- mala onda
- mala palabra
- mala pasada
- mala pata
- mala racha
- mala sangre
- mala suerte
- mala voluntad
- malas artes
- malas lenguas
- malos tratos
- más malo que un dolor
- más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer
- poli bueno poli malo
- poner mala voz
- por la mala
- por las buenas o por las malas
- por las malas
- por las malas o por las buenas
- por malas
- soplan malos vientos
- tener mala cabeza
Related terms
Descendants
Noun
malo m (plural malos, feminine mala, feminine plural malas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “malo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Pronunciation
Verb
malo
- (impersonal) to not exist
- bira malo ― there is no rice/rice does not exist
- ngogu malo toma hito ― there is no food in the kitchen
- (impersonal) to not have
- ngori pipi malo ― I have no money (literally, “there is no money of mine”)
- (intransitive) to not exist
- nyao imalo toma hito ― there is no fish in the kitchen
- mina momalo toma fala ― she is not at home
Usage notes
This word negates the verb of existence sema. In impersonal usage (unlike sema), malo generally follows the object of the sentence; in intransitive usage, malo follows the subject and precedes the object. To negate the transitive usage of sema, the impersonal form of malo is used.
Conjugation
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Numeral
malo
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm (“night, darkness”), most likely via borrowing from a Bungku–Tolaki language.
Noun
malo
References
- Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris
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